Fresh clues have emerged about the final journey of a European glacier mummy shot dead by an arrow before his body was preserved in ice for thousands of years. The latest study, published Wednesday in ...

Researchers have determined the cause of death for Otzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy found -- carrying an REI-geek kitbag and wearing some highly sophisticated shoes-- in 1991 in the Italian Alps. Though ...

“Otzi, the 5,300-year-old Tyrolean Iceman and the World’s Oldest Tattoos,” will be the topic of the second annual John W. Sanders Lecture by Aaron Deter-Wolf, a prehistory archaeologist, on Sept. 15.

Otzi the Iceman: Frozen moss sheds new light on his final journey After more than 20 years of studying clues about Ötzi the Iceman, researchers say that frozen moss has shed new light on his final ...

It ages me to think that my current students were just a twinkling in their parent’s eye when Otzi the Iceman was discovered - almost 30 years ago - but it seems like yesterday. I remember when this ...