Nearly 20 years after the dead man's head was found peeping from a melting Alpine glacier, investigators have finally seen fit to contact his relatives. This doesn't indicate sloth on the part of the ...

Otzi, a frozen 5,300-year-old man found mummified in a glacier in the Alps in 1991, has been examined multiple times by scientists MYSTERIOUS tattoos adorning a 5,300-year-old mummified corpse known ...

(CNN) — 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, ...

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 ...

The Iceman's hand is pictured. Credit: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/EURAC/M.Lafogler A study was published last week on the DNA of Helicobacter pylori, the ...

Five thousand years after the bundle of frozen bones that became known as Otzi the Iceman met his end at the hands of Alpine robbers, two Dutch forensic artists have reconstructed his face. By Allan ...

Fresh clues have emerged about the final journey of a European glacier mummy shot dead by an arrow before his body was preserved in ice for thousands of years. The latest study, published Wednesday in ...

This file photo taken on February 28, 2011 shows the mummy of an iceman named Otzi, discovered in 1991 in the Italian Schnal Valley glacier, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Bolzano, Italy, ...

BOLZANO, Italy — When the head of a small Italian museum called Detective Inspector Alexander Horn of the Munich Police, she asked him if he investigated cold cases. "Yes I do," Horn said, recalling ...

There is now broad agreement on the circumstances of Ötzi's death. Around 100 experts on mummies from nearly every single continent gathered for a recent conference with the aim of discussing any ...

Snøhetta has released visuals of a Museum Quarter in the mountains of Bolzano, which will have a projecting stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint. If built the museum would have exhibition space ...

MYSTERIOUS tattoos adorning a 5,300-year-old mummified corpse known as “Otzi the Iceman” may have been inscribed as a primitive form of acupuncture, experts claim. Otzi, a frozen 5,300-year-old man, ...