caveman

There are a lot of things to like about this story on the sequencing of a frozen caveman’s DNA. But nothing tops the revelation that somewhere in Europe there is an Institute for Mummies and the Iceman. If I worked there I would have my business card tattooed on my chest. “Oh that? That’s nothing, just proof I work at the INSTITUTE FOR MUMMIES AND THE ICEMAN.”

Anyway, on to the real news, from the BBC:

New clues have emerged in what could be described as the world’s oldest murder case: that of Oetzi the “Iceman”, whose 5,300-year-old body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991.