(I ought to add up front that the following is the result of an exercise in a type of sensationalistic reporting characteristic of certain UK tabloids)

Remember the Iceman? Not Maverick’s nemesis from Top Gun, but the 5000 year old Neolithic mummy found in the German Alps back in 1991.

After 17 years of peaking and prodding, Frozen Fritz is out of the freezer and back in the news. This time, Italian scientists working with DNA taken from the Iceman’s rectum have figured out he has no living relatives. A team including Franco Rollo from Camerino University, and Luca Ermini working at Camerino and Leeds University, used the genes in Iceman’s DNA like an identity card; but it turns out nobody today carries anything even similar.