An off-beat experiment has poked holes in a popular assumption about Ötzi the Iceman’s tattoos. Ötzi’s roughly 5,200-year-old body, found partly preserved and naturally mummified in the ...

Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes and was likely bald. His remarkably well-preserved remains, frozen beneath ice for about 5,300 years, revealed 61 ...

Ötzi the Iceman has 61 tattoos across his abdomen, lower back, lower legs and left wrist. South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology / EURAC / Samadelli / Staschitz Archaeologists know a lot about Ötzi ...

Ötzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old body was found by hikers in the Tyrolean Alps, has 61 tattoos. Scientists now think they understand the technique behind them.

Ötzi the Iceman's many tattoos were made by "hand-poking" — a manual version of the tattooing technique usually used today — and not by cutting his skin as some researchers have suggested ...

Now, Grand Island native Gary Staab is playing a major role in giving Otzi’s story a whole new burst of publicity via a NOVA broadcast, “Iceman Reborn,” that will air at 8 p.m. Wednesday on PBS.

Scientists in Austria have found 19 living descendants of a prehistoric iceman whose 5,300-year-old body was found frozen in the Alps. Researchers from the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck ...