LEGENDARY “natural mummy” Ötzi the Iceman was infected with a cancer-causing virus. The ancient human, who live around 5,300 ...

The 5,300-year-old Ötzi the Iceman mummy and a prehistoric man who lived in Siberia 45,000 years ago both carried a ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

Talk about a paleo diet. Scientists have uncovered the last meal of a frozen hunter who died 5,300 years ago in the Alps. The stomach contents of the corpse, widely known as Oetzi the Iceman, offer a ...

Over 5,000 years ago, before the pyramids and Stonehenge, Ötzi the Iceman was killed in the Ötztal Alps near the border between modern day Austria and Italy. His body was soon covered with snow and ...

They're older than King Tut, Ötzi the Iceman, and even the ones found in the Atacama Desert. Across southeastern Asia, researchers have identified dozens of mummies that are between 4,000 and 11,00 ...

Across southeastern Asia, researchers have identified dozens of mummies that are between 4,000 and 11,00 years old. After scanning the bones with invisible wavelengths of light, they found that almost ...