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In an astonishing blend of archaeology and baking, scientists have successfully cultivated ancient, cold-adapted yeast found on the body of Ötzi the Iceman to bake sourdough bread. This remarkable achievement not only offers a tantalizing taste of the past but also reveals that the famous 5,300-year-old mummy is a dynamic biological system, still hosting active microorganisms millennia after his death in the freezing Alps. Ötzi, discovered by hikers in 1991 in the Ötztal Alps on the border of Austria and Italy, is perhaps the most intensely studied human mummy in history. Since his discovery, researchers have learned about his health, his tattoos, and his last meal of ibex, red deer, and einkorn wheat. Now, a recent study published in the