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Archaeologists found a copper blade in Switzerland that's just like the ax Ötzi the famous "Iceman"was carrying when he died. Like Ötzi's ax, this tool was made with copper that came from hundreds of ...

Alps, did not have an easy go of it. He was probably murdered, shot from behind with an arrow that missed his vital organs ...

He was stalked, attacked and left to die alone. Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is Europe’s oldest known natural mummy. Miraculously preserved in glacial ice, his remarkably intact ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest red blood cells ever observed on the 5,300-year-old mummified body of iceman Ötzi, they said in a study published Wednesday. Almost a decade ago, the team of ...

Two renowned prehistoric individuals were likely infected with a human papillomavirus that has been linked to several cancers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Ötzi the Iceman was first discovered in 1991 when two hikers came across a dead body poking out of a thawing glacier in the ...

In the early 1990s, a pair of hikers out in the Italian Alps made a discovery - a frozen man who was more than 5,000 years old. He has since been named Otzi after the mountain range where he was found ...

Scientists who worked on the Otzi project produced some elegant results with just specks of evidence. Some researchers, looking at the structure of the body’s damaged thighbone, analyzed the secondary ...

More than a decade after the Iceman’s discovery, Egarter is still trying to unravel the mysteries of the body on the tray. Along with its clothing and tools, the body was originally perceived as a ...