I have been following the saga of Oetzi The 5,000 year old Iceman since the discovery of his body back in the early 1990's. According to a BBC article that was published yesterday, the legal battles over Oetzi are finally over.....maybe.....

Here is a snippet:

A legal battle sparked by the discovery of the world-famous 5,300-year-old "Iceman" known as Oetzi in northern Italy in 1991 has finally been settled.

German hikers Erika and Helmut Simon found the remains, but officials in the north Italian province of Bolzano had refused an adequate finders' fee.

A court ruled against the province in 2006, and it has finally agreed to pay 150,000 euros (£120,000; $216,000).

But the award has come too late for Mr Simon, who died four years ago.

The money will go to his 71-year-old widow.

You may have picked up on my use of the word maybe in the last paragraph. I used it because there has been persistent rumours of a curse since the discovery of the iceman.

Another BBC snippet:

The BBC's Mark Duff, in Milan, says Oetzi has brought nothing but bad luck to many of those involved in his discovery.

Mr Simon died in a mountaineering accident in 2004, and six other people linked to the discovery in some way have died in apparently mysterious circumstances.

This has all led to talk of a Tutankhamen-like "curse of Oetzi", our correspondent says.

Oetzi was reportedly 159cm tall (5ft 2.5in), 46 years old, arthritic, and infested with whipworm at the time he died. It was discovered that the iceman himself died due to murder!

Curse or not the discovery of Oetzi is one of the most important in the last century in my opinion. We have learned a lot from this humble man of 5,000 years ago.