Scientists make sourdough bread using yeast found in 5,000-year-old mummy

<p>Team now plans to see if they can use yeast strains harvested from Ötzi the Iceman to brew beer too</p><p>Scientists have baked a sourdough loaf of bread using yeast strains harvested from a 5,000-year-old mummy and now plan to see if they can use them to brew beer too.</p><p>The yeast came from Ötzi the Iceman, a famous corpse remarkably preserved by being frozen in Alpine ice near the Italy-Austria border until he was discovered in 1991. Ötzi has been the subject of intense study since he was found and has shed much light on pre-historic European people and their way of life.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/05/scientists-sourdough-bread-yeast-strains-mummy">Continue reading...</a>