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科学家神秘死亡 冰川木乃伊诅咒?
http://www.sina.com.cn 2005/04/21 17:19  国际在线

  He had lain in his icy tomb on an Alpine glacier in northern Italy for 5,300 years, a perfectly preserved Stone Age warrior, complete with fur robes, leather shoes and bow and arrow.

  But since being found 14 years ago, five of the people who came in close contact with Oetzi the Iceman have died, leading to the inevitable question: is the mummy cursed?

  Konrad Spindler, head of the Iceman investigation team at Innsbruck University, died on Monday, apparently from complications arising from multiple sclerosis. But that has not stopped his name being linked to a string of strange deaths related to the mummy.

  He had spent years studying the remains of the frozen warrior, who was discovered in the melting Similaun glacier, on the border between Italy and Austria in 1991. The 66-year-old scientist had been aware of curse theories, built around the supposition that the Iceman was angry at having been disturbed after 53 centuries, and used to joke: "The next victim could be me."

  The other "victims" of the mummy include the forensic expert Dr Rainer Henn, who placed the cadaver in a body bag with his bare hands, and who died in a road accident on his way to a conference to discuss his famous subject.

  The Alpine guide Kurt Fritz organised the transportation by helicopter of the mummified remains, and was killed by a snowslide in an accident in the mountains, in an area he knew well. He was the only one of a party of climbers to die.

  Then there was journalist Rainer Hoelz, who filmed the recovery of the Iceman, and who died of a brain tumour.

  The fourth death was that of Helmut Simon, the German tourist who spotted the Iceman in 1991 while on a walking trip with his wife. He became bitter that he was not recognised or financially compensated for his discovery.

  Last October he failed to return from a mountain hike and was found dead eight days later, the victim of a 300ft fall. Local newspapers recorded that his body was found frozen, under a sheet of snow and ice.

  A possible sixth victim has also been named, that of Dieter Warnecke, the man who helped find the missing 69-year-old and who died of a heart attack after attending his funeral.

  Like all good curse theories, natural death, accidents and sheer bad luck have been compressed into a single sinister hypothesis and with all this doom and gloom, there is only one piece of good news. Visitors to the museum in the Italian town of Bolzano specially constructed for the Iceman, where he is on display in a hi-tech refrigerated casket chilled to a glacial -6C, are expecting an increase in curious visitors.

科学家神秘死亡 冰川木乃伊诅咒?

  他躺在意大利北部高山的冰层里被完好地保存了5300年;他被认为是石器时代的一名武士,穿着毛皮衣物并身佩弓箭。但自从14年前发现了这具冰川木乃伊后,曾参与发现和研究工作的5人都先后死亡。这不禁让人疑惑:“这是木乃伊的诅咒吗?”

  据英国《卫报》4月20日报道,来自奥地利因斯布鲁克大学的冰川木乃伊研究小组组长康拉德-施平德勒于18日去世,享年66岁。尽管施平德勒的死因系多发性硬化引起的并发症,但是他的死亡仍然让人联想到和这具冰川木乃伊有关的一系列死亡事件。

  数年来,施平德勒一直潜心于研究这具名叫厄兹的冰川木乃伊。他曾开玩笑说,木乃伊可能会诅咒他们,因为他们打扰了他5300年的“宁静生活”,“下一个‘受害者’可能是我”。

  这具冰川木乃伊于1991年在意大利与奥地利交界处的西米劳恩冰河中被发现。14年来,除了施平德勒,还有4名参与研究的人先后死亡。

  赖纳-亨,参与研究这具木乃伊的博士,曾用赤裸的双手将木乃伊装进尸袋。亨在参加一个会议的途中发生车祸身亡。

  库尔特-弗里茨,阿尔卑斯山的导游,曾负责指引直升机搬运木乃伊。弗里茨在一次登山中遭遇雪崩身亡。可让人不解的是,他对出事地点极为熟悉,而且还是那次登山中的唯一遇难者。

  赖纳-赫尔茨,记者,曾用摄像机记录下这具木乃伊被发现的全过程。他死于脑肿瘤。

  赫尔穆特-西蒙,来自德国的旅游爱好者,也是这具木乃伊的最初发现者。1991年,西蒙与妻子在旅行中发现了木乃伊,但他的发现既没有获得公开的承认,也没有得到经济上的奖励。2004年10月,他在登山中坠入300英尺深的悬崖丧生。8天后被发现时,他的身体已被冻僵并覆盖着一层薄薄的冰雪,就如同一具冰川木乃伊。

  除上述5名死者,还有1个人的死也与这具木乃伊有关。迪特尔-瓦内克,是他发现了西蒙的尸首。他在参加完西蒙的葬礼后猝死于心脏病。

  无论是自然死亡或是意外身亡,这些人似乎都和这具埋藏了5300年的冰川木乃伊有着千丝万缕的联系。但在这些厄运与不幸之外,总算还有一个算是积极的消息。

  意大利博尔兹诺镇专门修建了博物馆,用来展出这具颇有神秘色彩的冰川木乃伊。他被保存在摄氏零下6度的冰棺里,吸引了大批的参观者,为当地政府带来一笔可观的收入。(文/蒋黎黎)


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