5,300-Year-Old Yeast of Otzi Mummy Was Used to Make Bread

Imagine someone opens a freezer and finds one of history’s most famous ancient bodies, and then realises something is still alive. That is the strange discovery researchers made while studying Ötzi the Iceman, the remarkably preserved mummy found in the Alps in 1991. Researchers were not only looking for microorganisms around his remains. They also … Read more