Why Scientists Used a 5,000-Year-Old Mummy to Bake Freaky Sourdough Bread (opens in new tab)

Covers 'It was very very good': Ötzi the Iceman's body is covered in ancient yeast — and scientists just used it to make a sourdough

I recently wrote about Ötzi the Iceman, a guy who died 5,300 years ago and was so well preserved in a glacier in northern Italy that scientists can still study the microbes hanging out on and inside him, according to a new study published in the journal Microbiome. A small detail that didn’t get revealed […] The post appeared first on <a href="

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