The cause of death of a petrified (or rather frozen) 5,100 year old iceman doesn't usually become big news on the Internet, particularly in Web 2.0 social bookmarking websites. That is, unless there's a rumored curse attached to the mummy.

The mummy, Oetzi, supposedly fell down a cavity and became entombed in a glacier, 3,210 meters feet above sea level. The mummy was discovered in 1991 by German mountaineer Helmut Simon.

Around 2004, Simon died while hiking in the same area he discovered the mummy. Also, Archaeologist Konrad Spindler, 55, the person who first inspected the mummy, died in April 2005. Rainer Henn, head of the forensic team studying the mummy, died in a car-crash on his way to give a lecture about the mummy. These series of incidents gave rise to, you guessed it, a supposed "curse."

Anyhow, it's now been determined that Oetzi died due to an arrowhead injury which caused massive internal bleeding. It is still unclear though if the arrow injury was "friendly fire" during a hunting trip, or if it was due to an intentional attack.

Oetzi died when he was around 45 years old. He was about 1.6 meters tall, had blue eyes, long curly brown hair, and numerous tattoos. He was carrying a longbow (1.8 meters long), around a dozen arrows, and an axe.

Well, now that the reason for the mummy's death has been identified to a certain extent, perhaps the folks who are a bit more superstitious regarding the curse can feel a bit more safe.