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8 November 2003

How much is that mummy?

How much is a 5000-year-old frozen mummy worth? The question is taxing a museum in Bolzano, Italy, which proudly displays Õtzi, the Stone Age ice man. A court ruled this week that Helmut and Erika Simon are Õtzi’s discoverers, having found him while out walking in 1991, thus entitling them to 25 per cent of Õtzi’s value.

Animal smugglers face jail

To avoid another outbreak of monkeypox, a milder relative of smallpox that infected 37 people this June, the US is about to ban the sale and transportation of prairie dogs and imports of African…

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