We know that the purpose of refrigeration is to keep a product that needs refrigeration as fresh and usable for as long as possible. But do we really expect refrigeration to do the job for 5,300 years ...

The discovery of his mummified remains was a total surprise to the hikers that stumbled across him. But 5,300 years after he was killed, some think Otzi the Iceman continues to visit surprises — ...

The German man who discovered the frozen corpse of a prehistoric hunter in the Alps 13 years ago is thought to have suffered a similar fate to his famous find after he disappeared in the same mountain ...

BERLIN, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- The German who made the spectacular find of a frozen prehistoric man in the Alps has gone missing himself in the same area, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. Retired caretaker ...

German tourists Helmut and Erika Simon stumbled upon a 5,300-year-old body on a hiking holiday in the early Nineties. They assumed, given the altitude and location of where they found the man, that it ...

Researchers have determined the cause of death for Otzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy found -- carrying an REI-geek kitbag and wearing some highly sophisticated shoes-- in 1991 in the Italian Alps. Though ...