This body, which is roughly 5,300 years old and best known as the Iceman, is perhaps the most ... The body on the tray has a nickname, Otzi (it rhymes with “tootsie”), after an area of the ...

In 1991, hikers in the Ötztal Alps discovered the remarkably well-preserved body of Otzi the Iceman, dating back approximately ... The cause of his death remains a mystery, though evidence ...

Visitors can also check out his bearskin hat and tools, as well as a life-size replica of him, decked out in replicas of the leather and fur clothes Ötzi was wearing at the time of his death. Like a ...

The Iceman did not die on a full stomach. Eight hours before his death on a barren Alpine pass, he was in the valley to the south, in what is today Italy's Schnals Valley. There, according to Dr ...

The mummified body of an ancient man dubbed Otzi the Iceman was dug out of a glacier ... revealed that the arrow was the main cause of death. "The arrowhead pierced through the left shoulder ...

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 ...