The surprise finding came from an X-ray exam. Scientists then took a closer look at the Iceman’s back, where they spotted an unhealed wound where the arrow had entered. A more sophisticated computed ...

The mummified body of an ancient man dubbed Otzi the Iceman was dug out of a glacier in the Italian Alps in 1991, according to Live Science. Otzi ended up becoming an international sensation and ...

The 5,000-year-old mummy Öetzi, found in a glacier in the European alps 17 years ago and believed to be an ancestor of modern Europeans, actually belonged to a different genetic family and may have no ...

The Iceman did not die on a full stomach. Eight hours before his death on a barren Alpine pass, he was in the valley to the south, in what is today Italy's Schnals Valley. There, according to Dr ...

Perhaps the most famous, frozen for more than 5,000 years on a remote mountain pass is Otzi, the iceman. Who was this man that lived nearly a thousand years before the pyramids and why did his ...

Their discovery would soon be known worldwide as Ötzi the Iceman and would revolutionise the understanding of prehistoric life in Europe. Ötzi is believed to have lived around 3,300 BCE ...

Descendants: Scientists have found 19 living relatives of Ötzi the Iceman who was found frozen ... Archaeologists believe Otzi, who was carrying a bow, a quiver of arrows and a copper axe ...