Archaeologist Konrad Spindler estimated from the tools found with the mummified Iceman that he was 4,000 years old. A short time later, radiocarbon dating proved that Spindler’s estimate was off by ...

Otzi was found with mummified remains of the clothing he wore and ... The experts figured that the iceman lived in the Copper Age which spanned from 3,500 B.C. to 1,700 B.C. The mummy was later ...

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 ...

Descendants: Scientists have found 19 living relatives of Ötzi the Iceman who was found frozen ... Archaeologists believe Otzi, who was carrying a bow, a quiver of arrows and a copper axe ...

Today, Ötzi the Iceman resides in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, where his preserved remains are displayed to the public.

The Iceman did not die on a full stomach ... no water or food to speak of (a single sloe berry was found with his remains) and try to cross the mountain at a time of year when several feet ...

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 ...