Monday, August 2, 2010

Five millennia on, Iceman of Bolzano gives up DNA secrets

From the Indy

"Nearly 20 years after the dead man's head was found peeping from a melting Alpine glacier, investigators have finally seen fit to contact his relatives.

This doesn't indicate sloth on the part of the Italian authorities, but instead, advances in DNA technology that may lead scientists to living descendants of the South Tyrol's 5,300-year-old mummified man..."

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