One of the oldest known written ‘recipes’ in the world is a nearly 4,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet describing how to brew beer — and it makes a case that fermentation, more than roasting or baking, may have been humanity’s first laboratory science

Scientists bake sourdough bread using 5,000-year-old yeast from Ötzi the Iceman

Scientists have successfully baked sourdough bread using yeast strains harvested from Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,000-year-old mummy preserved in A

Ancient yeast from Ötzi the Iceman's gut used to make bread in scientific experiment

Scientists analyzed the gut microbiome of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Italian Alps in 1991. They discovered a parti

Ancient Babylonian Tablet Reveals Advanced Trigonometry Predating Pythagoras by 1,000 Years

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet from Columbia University's collections has been deciphered by researchers, revealing it contains sop

Ancient Transaction Records from 3100 BC and Modern Database Timestamp Limits

The article discusses the oldest recorded transaction from 3100 BC, which was an ancient accounting record of malt and barley groats that ha

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

5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Records Massive Asteroid Impact

A 5,500-year-old Sumerian star map, discovered in King Ashurbanipal's library in Nineveh, Iraq, has been identified as recording a massive a