The famous Ötzi the Iceman, discovered in 1991 by German tourists in Ötzal, in the Alps between Austria and Italy, is a natural mummy of a man who lived for back to 5,300 years ago. According to available records, Ötzis frozen mummy bears the oldest known tattoo records, with 61 identified on his bo
In Imola, Italy, a team of archaeologists unearthed a rare case of coffin birth. The study of the bones made it possible to trace the causes of the death of the mother and the post-mortem delivery. The discovery and analysis of the bones of a burial showing a case of coffin birth highlights medica
A braid from the scalp of Native American chief Sitting Bull, in a photo provided by the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington Thanks to a new technique that allows genetic information to be obtained from a tiny or even fragmented sample of ancient DNA, a relationshi
As part of the Silk Road and situated at the geographic intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long been an important crossroads for trans-European exchanges of people, cultures, agriculture, and languages. Since the late 1990s, the discovery of hund