Scientists find yeast in ancient Iceman's guts—and make bread

Yeast has been growing in the guts of a frozen mummy called Oetzi the Iceman for thousands of years, scientists have ...
Nepali Times

Otzi, the Iceman

While trekking in the mountains, imagine stumbling into the oldest moist mummy in the world. This is exactly what happened to a German couple in 1991 when they were hiking in the Alps in the South ...
Ars Technica

Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after thousands of years, and some very modern. Microbiologist Mohamed S. Sarhan ...
NDTV

Scientists Bake Sourdough Bread From Yeast Found On 5000-Year-Old Mummy

Scientists baked sourdough bread using yeast from Otzi the Iceman's 5,000-year-old remains Otzi's body was found in the Alps near Italy-Austria border in 1991, preserved in ice Yeast isolated from ...