Ötzi the Iceman is one of the most well-studied individuals in human history, but there always seems to be more to learn about him. A new genomic study has now found that he looked very different ...

A mere 2 hours before his grisly murder about 5,300 years ago, Ötzi the iceman chowed down on some mouthwatering morsels: wild meat from ibex and red deer, cereals from einkorn wheat and ...

Tattooed lines on Ötzi the Iceman’s left wrist, like others on his body, were created by poking holes in the skin with a pointed, pigment-coated tool, researchers say. South Tyrol Museum of ...

Scientists believe Ötzi the Iceman, was attacked twice when he went up and down the mountains. He had a stabbing wound in his hand and then, later, a laceration by his collarbone that could have ...

The ancient, mummified body of Ötzi the Iceman was found decades ago by hikers in the high Alps — but how did it get there? A new study questions the prevailing story of Ötzi's death more than ...

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.

Another chapter in a murder case over 5000 years old. Scientists reconstructed the chronology of the injuries that Ötzi, the glacier man preserved as a frozen mummy, received in his last days. It ...

He died more than 5,000 years ago, shot in the back with an arrow by a mysterious assailant in the frosty Alps. But Ötzi the iceman, Europe's oldest mummy, is continuing to reveal secrets today ...

High in the Italian Alps 5,300 years ago, Ötzi the Iceman was shot in the back with an arrow and likely bled to death within minutes. Now, research by German scientists has unlocked new secrets.

Days before his violent murder in the Italian Alps about 5,300 years ago, Ötzi the iceman re-sharpened his tools, likely with his right hand, according to a new analysis of the cut marks on his ...

Also in 2018, scientists analyzed the remnants of Ötzi's last meal in his stomach, concluding that he ate a hearty mountaineer’s high-fat diet of red deer, wild goat, and whole-grain einkorn ...

Ötzi the Iceman's hard-core leather outfit would have made animal rights activists shudder. The 5,300-year-old iceman mummy, whose remarkably preserved body was found frozen in the Tyrolean Alps ...