Alps, did not have an easy go of it. He was probably murdered, shot from behind with an arrow that missed his vital organs ...

Paranthropus’ most distinctive features were their heavy jaws and gigantic molars, leading to them being nicknamed the ...

The 1st-century A.D. mummy of Demetrios, now at the Brooklyn Museum, was excavated from the Roman cemetery in Hawara, Egypt, in 1911. CT scans revealed that he, like a surprising number of other ...

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside ...

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

Two renowned prehistoric individuals were likely infected with a human papillomavirus that has been linked to several cancers.

His 5,300-year-old mummy contained traces of 75 plant species and reveal that Ötzi (Otzi) the Iceman climbed through the Schnalstal valley in Italy. The naturally mummified, 5,300-year-old corpse is ...

Inspired by Ötzi’s fascinating story for survival, German filmmaker Felix Randau attempts to revive the life of the most famous natural mummy in history though a feature film. Der Mann aus dem Eis ...

Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes and was likely bald. His remarkably well-preserved remains, frozen beneath ice for about 5,300 years, revealed 61 ...

(CNN) — Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes and was likely bald. His remarkably well-preserved remains, frozen beneath ice for about 5,300 years, revealed ...

Ötzi the Iceman’s remains are on display in a refrigerated cell at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy. (CNN) – Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark ...