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 ...

Oeggl reconstructed the Iceman's last meal from his microscopic analysis of a tiny sample removed from the mummy's transverse colon, the part of the intestine just beyond the stomach. When the ...

They found dark spots at the back of the iceman mummy's cerebrum and concluded he may have died from a head injury. It was suggested that falling, after being hit by the arrow, or while climbing ...

Bolzano, April 20 - Italy's famous Iceman mummy, Oetzi, is set to tour the United States and Canada after a plan to make a lifesize copy was unveiled at the Alto Adige Archaeological Museum Wednesday.

Since the discovery of this mummy, the Tyrolean iceman nicknamed Ötzi has been spilling secrets from the past. Beyond his obvious archaeological significance, bits of grass, meat, and fur from Ötzi’s ...

"Iceman seemed to have been fully aware that fat represents an excellent energy source." paleopathologist Albert Zink, also at the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies said in a release.