The mummified body of an ancient man dubbed Otzi the Iceman was dug out of a glacier in the Italian Alps in 1991, according to Live Science. Otzi ended up becoming an international sensation and ...

He’s known as Ötzi the Iceman, nicknamed for the nearby Ötzal Alps, where he was found in 1991. The 5-foot, 2-inch 110-pound corpse is a mummy, preserved essentially as he looked the day he died.