Scientists found yeast in an ancient mummy. Then they made bread

Scientists found living yeast in Ötzi the Iceman's remains and used it to bake sourdough bread more than 5,300 years after ...

Scientists Bake Bread Using Ancient Yeast Revived From Ötzi The Iceman Mummy

Scientists studying the 5,300-year-old remains of Ötzi the Iceman have successfully baked sourdough bread using yeast ...
Los Angeles Times

Rare dinosaur mummies help scientists recreate their prehistoric lives

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. NEW YORK — Researchers have unearthed a pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected ...

Sourdough made from yeast inside Europe’s oldest mummy

Ancient yeast living inside the 5,300-year-old frozen corpse of Ötzi the Iceman has been used to make a “very, very good ...
KPBS

How a great-grandmother helped researchers unravel a dinosaur mummy mystery

You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...
CNN

Egyptian mummy unearthed with literary text on abdomen in first ever find

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other ...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Mummies are rising at the California Science Center

The mummies are rising and they’re ready for the spotlight at the California Science Center. On Saturday, Feb. 7 the Los Angeles venue is welcoming back the traveling exhibition titled “Mummies of the ...