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World's oldest blood cells found in ice mummy Otzi
The 5300-year-old iceman mummy was found in the Alps in 1991.
Italian and German scientists have extracted the World’s oldest known human blood cells from the body of the 5300-year-old ’Otzi’ iceman mummy.
The discovery was made using an atomic force microscope that examined tissue sections of a wound in the body of the mummy and detected red blood cells.
The body of the Stone Age human has...