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, ...

Otzi, for those not up on their 5,300-year-old mummified men, died and was frozen in the Alps near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. His body is one of the best preserved human ...

He is arguably the world's most famous Iceman, and now we have a general idea of what he sounded like. Italian researchers used a CT scan to measure the vocal tract and vocal chords of a ...

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What was the last meal of Otzi the Iceman, a Chalcolithic hunter who keeled over in the chilly Italian Alps some 5,300 years ago? According to a talk at the 7th World Congress on Mummy Studies in ...

Researchers have determined the cause of death for Otzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy found -- carrying an REI-geek kitbag and wearing some highly sophisticated shoes-- in 1991 in the Italian Alps. Though ...

If you were thinking that the ancient Alpine traveler known as Otzi — and often known simply as Iceman — scraped by on a diet of foraged grasses and berries, you’d be very wrong. A comprehensive new ...

Otzi the Iceman, a well-preserved mummy discovered in the Alps, may have had a genetic predisposition to heart disease, new research suggests. The new finding may explain why the man who lived 5,300 ...

Otzi, Italy’s prehistoric “iceman,” probably does not have any modern-day descendants, according to a study published Thursday. A team of Italian and British scientists who sequenced his mitochondrial ...

Otzi Adventure Gear, a California-based family-run builder of adventure vans, has been awarded the 2025 Adventure Van Expo Builder’s Cup, a notable accolade from one of the nation’s largest adventure ...

BOLZANO, Italy — Twenty-five years ago this month, two hikers stumbled upon one of the great archaeological finds of the last century: the frozen, mummified remains and personal possessions of a man ...

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 ...