In 1991, a German couple hiking in the Alps came across the body of a middle-aged man lying face down in a snowfield. It took days for a recovery team to hack him out of the ice and haul him by ...

The Tyrolean Iceman Ötzi is one of the oldest known human glacier mummies. Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum / Eurac / Marco Samadelli-Gregor Staschitz Ötzi, the 5,300-year-old mummy found murdered high in ...

Biomarkers are biological attributes that can give doctors or researchers clues about the health status or illnesses of a patient. Scientists are placing great hope in a new type of biomarker, ...

Scientists are continually unearthing new facts about Homo sapiens from the mummified remains of Otzi, the Copper Age man, who was discovered in a glacier in 1991. Researchers have now succeeded in ...

When Ötzi the Iceman was discovered in the Alps in September 1991, it was the kind of find that makes archaeologists go a little weak in the knees. Two German hikers, Erika and Helmut Simon, spotted a ...

The 5,000-year-old Ötzi the Iceman mummy had 61 tattoos preserved on his body, and nobody knows the method by which they got there. A new research study experimented with differing tattoo tools and ...