In 2008, genetic research suggested that Ötzi’s maternal lineage was extinct. His mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) carried a rare signature never observed in any living person, leading researchers to ...
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Ötzi the Iceman’s curse
When Ötzi the Iceman was discovered in the Alps in September 1991, it was the kind of find that makes archaeologists go a little weak in the knees. Two German hikers, Erika and Helmut Simon, spotted a ...
The 5,300-year-old Ötzi the Iceman mummy and a prehistoric man who lived in Siberia 45,000 years ago both carried a cancer-causing strain of human papillomavirus (HPV), new research finds. Scientists ...
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