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

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

SCIENTISTS have baked sourdough using yeast extracted from a 5,300-year-old mummy – and now they want to brew beer from it.

A new study cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeasts that had colonized Ötzi's body shortly after his death 5,300 years ...

Yeast species in the mummy have even shifted over the past nine years despite freezing preservation, raising questions about ...

The 5,300-year-old remains of Ötzi the Iceman still contain an active community of ancient and modern-day microbes, a new ...

A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at the cemetery had gold tongues.

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

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have been used as a magical ward for the afterlife.

The mummy of an ancient Egyptian woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like an anguished shriek may have died "screaming from agony," researchers say. The unnamed woman mummy, discovered in a ...

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 ...

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