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A mummy's curse has cast its shadow over the death of a Brisbane scientist who worked to unlock the secrets of a 5300-year-old man frozen in the Italian Alps.A memorial service will be held on Monday for molecular archaeologist Tom Loy, who was found dead in his home a fortnight ago as h..."
A mummy's curse has cast its shadow over the death of a Brisbane scientist who worked to unlock the secrets of a 5300-year-old man frozen in the Italian Alps.A memorial service will be held on Monday for molecular archaeologist Tom Loy, who was found dead in his home a fortnight ago as he finalised his book on the world's oldest mummy, dubbed Oetzi.Dr Loy, 63, director of the Archaeological Sciences Laboratories at the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience, became the seventh person to have died after coming into close contact with the iceman since his discovery in 1991."He didn't believe in the curse," a colleague said yesterday. "Itwas just superstition.
People die."
The California-born scientist had been suffering from a blood-related condition for about 12 years, according to his family, that was diagnosed shortly after he became involved with the Oetzi analysis. His brother Gareth, in Australia to attend the memorial service, told The Australian the autopsy results were inconclusive, apart from ruling out any suspicious circumstances over the death of Dr Loy, whose body lay undiscovered in his Brisbane home for several days."We have been told he died of natural causes or an accident, or a combination of both," he said."But Tom was in poor health - he had a blood deficiency that made him subject to blood clots."Asked when his brother had contracted the condition, Mr Loy said he believed itwas "about 12 years ago", when he telephoned his brother to tell him he should be checked for the hereditary condition.But Mr Loy said his brother, who found his first fossil as a young child - an extinct horse in land being excavated for a road near their Californian home - never mentioned the curse."Tom never spoke about it - all I can say is that eventually death comes for everyone," he said.Rumours of a Tutankhamen-style curse started a year ago when the man who discovered the mummy, Helmut Simon, 67, fell to his death during a freak blizzard while hiking near the spot where he found Oetzi protruding from the ice.Within an hour of Mr Simon's funeral, the head of the mountain rescue team sent to find him, Dieter Warnecke, 45, died of a heart attack.Other deaths of the team......
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