This Sourdough Starter Is 5,300 Years Old — And It Came From A Mummy’s Gut

A team of scientists in Italy is breaking the mold of a typical sourdough bread recipe … by using yeast from an ancient mummy as the key ingredient.

And apparently it’s “very, very good.” Ötzi, the 5,300-year-old Iceman mummy, was found in 1991 on the border of Italy and Austria, where he was likely killed ...