Scientists baked sourdough with yeast from a 5,300-year-old mummy
Ötzi the Iceman died in the Alps roughly 5,300 years ago, and researchers have now used yeast recovered from his frozen body to bake sourdough bread.
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Scientists bake sourdough bread using 5,000-year-old yeast from Ötzi the Iceman
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japantimes.co.jp·1mo ago
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