Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen remains were found in a gully high in the Tyrolean Alps by hikers in 1991, is perhaps the world’s most closely studied corpse.

When they first pulled his frozen body from a glacier on the Italy-Austria border in 1991, after some 5,300 years on ice, most experts thought the prehistoric hunter who came to be known as Otzi ...

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.

A new analysis of ice from near where the body of Ötzi the Iceman was found suggests that many of the summits of the Alps were ice-free just before or during the Copper Age man's lifetime.

The iceman cometh The remains of Ötzi, who’s named after the Ötztal Alps where he was found, were discovered on Sept. 19, 1991 by German tourists in an Alpine pass between Italy and Austria.

Since his discovery in the Northern Italian Alps nearly 20 years ago, researchers have learned a great deal about Ötzi the Iceman, including what he sounded like, his diet and his health. Now, a ...

In the summer of 2021, scientists studying glaciers in the Austrian Alps noticed two tiny horns sticking through the surface ...

The Iceman was found frozen in a glacier in the Tyrollean Alps on the Italian-Austrian border in 1991 by two German mountaineers and promptly became the center of an international tug-of-war.

Glaciers in the Ötztal Alps in Austria are currently melting and may be lost within two decades, but this might not be the first time humans have seen this kind of change.

Temperatures across the Swiss Alps are currently rising twice as fast as the global average, leading to devastating ...

Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen remains were found in a gully high in the Tyrolean Alps by hikers in 1991, is perhaps the world’s most closely studied corpse.

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.