A study of prehistoric skeletons from the Italian Alps shows that society may have been organized around fathers and that ...

Since his discovery in 1991, Ötzi, the famous mummified Iceman found frozen in the Ötztal Alps, has been offering all sorts of insights into the Neolithic past. Now scientists have turned to his ...

New DNA research on Ötzi the Iceman’s neighbors uncovers 2,000 years of genetic stability in the Alps, contrasting the widespread migrations.

High in the Italian Alps 5,300 years ago, Ötzi the Iceman was shot in the back with an arrow and likely bled to death within minutes. Now, research by German scientists has unlocked new secrets.

The remains of Ötzi, who’s named after the Ötztal Alps where he was found, were discovered on Sept. 19, 1991 by German tourists in an Alpine pass between Italy and Austria.

Iceman may have come to an unfortunate end while crossing the Alps more than 5,000 years ago, but thanks to his ...

Ötzi's leggings also suggest a nascent fashion tradition: they're made entirely of goat leather, just like a similar pair of 4,500-year-old leggings discovered in Switzerland.

Ötzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old body was found by hikers in the Tyrolean Alps, has 61 tattoos. Scientists now think they understand the technique behind them.

A mere 2 hours before his grisly murder about 5,300 years ago, Ötzi the iceman chowed down on some mouthwatering morsels: wild meat from ibex and red deer, cereals from einkorn wheat and ...

From Ötzi’s genome, we know that he was genetically vulnerable to arterial disease, and it’s easy to imagine how that genetic predisposition may have interacted with his diet to cause him ...