Ötzi the Iceman isn't the only ancient individual whose DNA is giving us insights into the past. So too are those of his neighbors. A new analysis of the genomes of 47 people who lived in the ...

Now scientists have turned to his neighbors to see if their DNA can offer even more information about ancient people living ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA from 15 people who lived in the Italian Alps around the same time as Ötzi the Iceman shows that Ötzi's ancestry was decidedly different from his neighbors'. "We ...

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 ...

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.

For more than 30 years, scientists from around the world have flocked to a museum in the Italian Alps to learn from a 5,300-year-old man. He’s known as Ötzi the Iceman, nicknamed for the nearby Ötzal ...

Moving onto the Iceman, the authors explain that “the situation of Ötzi is relatively ambiguous since his ribcage is larger than that of Nazlet Khater 2 and Ohalo II H2 but shares with them a ...

Recently The Journal Times carried an Associated Press story about the Iceman. This is the guy whose 5,000-year-old frozen mummy was discovered in the Alps in 1991.

Ötzi the Iceman isn't the only ancient individual whose DNA is giving us insights into the past. So too are those of his neighbors. A new analysis of the genomes of 47 people who lived in the ...