With a lack of ancient human bone excavations in the region, finding human DNA within this piece of chewed-up birch bark was ...

Now, Grand Island native Gary Staab is playing a major role in giving Otzi’s story a whole new burst of publicity via a NOVA broadcast, “Iceman Reborn,” that will air at 8 p.m. Wednesday on PBS.

A 5,300-year-old deep frozen hunter used moss as a primitive form of first aid, scientists have discovered. Otzi the Neolithic iceman had six different types of the plant in his stomach when he died.

Otzi the Iceman, a mummy believed to have lived between 3350 and 2105 BC, was discovered in 1991 in the Alps on the border between Austria and Italy. Europe’s oldest known mummy, Otzi, offers an ...

4. The Iceman was inked. Ötzi's frozen mummy preserves a fine collection of Copper Age tattoos. Numbering over 50 in total, they cover him from head to foot.

As is the case with Otzi the Iceman, Europe’s oldest known natural human mummy, who may be linked to the mysterious and bizarre deaths of several researchers connected to his discovery.

A wounded—and possibly wanted—man, Ötzi the Iceman spent his final days on the move high up in the Alps until he was felled with an arrow to the back. About 5,300 years later, archaeologists ...

Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes and was likely bald. His remarkably well-preserved remains, frozen beneath ice for about 5,300 years, revealed 61 ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes and was likely bald. His remarkably well-preserved remains, frozen beneath ice for ...