When the Iceman Ötzi was discovered in the Ötztal Alps, on the border of Italy and Austria, in 1991, researchers were taken aback by his natural preservation. Ötzi, who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC, ...

The copper used to make Ötzi's axe blade did not come from the Alpine region as had previously been supposed, but from ore mined in southern Tuscany. Ötzi was probably not involved in working the ...

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. The mystery over his violent death, who he ...

In 1991, hikers in the Alps found the body of a Copper Age man preserved in a glacier in the Italian Alps. That body—nicknamed “Ötzi” or “the Ice Man”—has become a rich source of information on ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The famous Ötzi, a man murdered about 5,300 years ago in the Italian Alps, had what's now ...

Scientists have again examined the DNA of the renowned glacier mummy known as Oetzi the Iceman to create a more precise portrayal of this prehistoric hunter decades after he was found in the Italian ...

Austrians named Ötzi the Iceman after the area where the mummy was found. * Photo: Werner Nosko / Corbis * 1991: Helmut and Erika Simon, a couple of German tourists from Nuremberg, stumble across the ...

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 didn’t look the way ...

Have you heard? Ötzi, the mummified mountain man discovered in an Alpine glacier in 1991, actually came from an Egyptian burial chamber and was only brought to Austria after his discovery for PR ...

In 1991, tourists stumbled across the mummified remains of a man who died 53 centuries ago in what is now the Italian Alps. Scientists have learned a lot about the Tyrolean Iceman in the past 17 years ...