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Archaeologists stunned after Homer's 'Iliad' found on Egyptian mummy in unprecedented discovery

Archaeologists are stunned after discovering a copy of Homer's Iliad on an Egyptian mummy, revealing unexpected ancient ...

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 ...
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What happened to ancient Egypt’s mummies is darker than most people realize

Ancient Egypt produced an enormous number of mummies over more than 3,000 years, yet only a tiny fraction remain today. One ...

Scientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make sourdough bread

More than 5,300 years ago, Oetzi the Iceman was strolling through the Alps on the border of Austria and Italy when he was ...

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

Team now plans to see if they can use yeast strains harvested from Ötzi the Iceman to brew beer too ...

Inca child mummy returned to indigenous community in Argentina

By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES, May 29 (Reuters) - The mummy of a child from the Inca period, discovered frozen in 1905 on a mountain in northwestern Argentina, has been returned to an indigenous ...