Some months ago I noted that sensationalist journalists [is there another kind?] had invented a "Curse of the Iceman" similar to the "Curse of King Tut's Tomb" that titillated readers early in the last century. [here] Well, they're at it again.
IOL reports:
Sydney - A sixth person connected to the discovery of the 5 300 year old frozen corpse of a man who became known as Oetzi the Iceman has died, fuelling claims of a curse surrounding the mummified body.Read the whole thing here.
Molecular archaeologist Tom Loy, 63, was found dead in his Brisbane home two weeks ago as he finalised a book about Oetzi, The Australian newspaper reported on Friday.
The United States-born Loy, director of the University of Queensland's archaeological sciences laboratories, lay dead in his home for several days before his body was discovered.
The Australian has pictures of some of the curse's "victims." [here]
And the story gets the BBC treatment here.
Loy himself pronounced the whole thing "just superstition." He said, "People die."
Indeed they do....
I have a friend who was once a screenwriter. Have to talk to him. This one practically writes itself.
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