Since his discovery in 1991, Ötzi, the famous mummified Iceman found frozen in the Ötztal Alps, has been offering all sorts of insights into the Neolithic past. Now scientists have turned to his ...

Ötzi's ancestry, it turns out, is far from common. A statue representing an iceman named Ötzi, on view at the Archaeological Museu of Bolzano. Photo: Andrea Solero / AFP via Getty Images.

As we see the Iceman reborn from 3D printing, resin, clay and paint, new revelations about Otzi’s life and legacy come to light, including surprising secrets hidden in his genetic code.

Mummified body in Alps, 5,000+ years old, had Lyme disease, lactose intolerance. Feb. 29, 2012 — -- They called him "the Tyrolean iceman" when hikers found him in the Italian Alps in 1991 ...