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, ...

Take a good look at this face: It hasn't been seen in over five millennia. in the year 3289 BC, Otzi trekked up the Schnalstal glacier in the Italian Alps. The Neolithic guy -- dubbed Otzi the Iceman, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. New York: An insight into the peopling of Europe has emerged from an unlikely source: the stomach contents of a 5300-year-old body ...

Experts from Innsbruck Medical University compared DNA samples taken from the mummy, nicknamed Otzi, with those taken from 3,700 blood donors in the Tyrol region of Austria and managed to match a ...

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 ...

The study suggests the mummy has more ancestry in common with early Anatolian farmers than any European counterparts. Otzi is known as one of the oldest human glacier mummies (Marco Samadelli-Gregor ...

Scientists perform autopsy on 5,000-year-old mummy (Channel 4) The mystery surrounding the violent murder of a Stone Age man in the Swiss Alps 5,000 years ago is to be uncovered by scientists. 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 ...

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 ...

Otzi the 5,300-year-old mummified body – discovered in melting ice in The Alps in 1991 – may have had dark skin, dark eyes and a balding head, analysis suggests. Initial studies of the corpse, also ...