brings renewed interest in the 5,300-year-old mummy. In 1991, hikers in the Ötztal Alps discovered the remarkably well-preserved body of Otzi the Iceman, dating back approximately 5,300 years.

Oeggl reconstructed the Iceman's last meal from his microscopic analysis of a tiny sample removed from the mummy's transverse colon, the part of the intestine just beyond the stomach. When the ...

The mummified body of an ancient man dubbed Otzi the Iceman was dug out of a glacier ... That was when they noticed the outstretched arm of Otzi's mummy and he was found lying on his stomach.

They found dark spots at the back of the iceman mummy's cerebrum and concluded he ... Archaeologists believe Otzi, who was carrying a bow, a quiver of arrows and a copper axe, may have been ...

Their discovery would soon be known worldwide as Ötzi the Iceman and would revolutionise ... researchers soon realised that the mummy belonged to a much earlier period. Radiocarbon dating ...

Perhaps the most famous, frozen for more than 5,000 years on a remote mountain pass is Otzi, the iceman. Who was this man that lived nearly a thousand years before the pyramids and why did his ...