The oldest red blood cells ever identified have been found in the body of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Alps in 1991. read more
The oldest mummified bodies ever found are the Chinchorro mummies of northern Chile and southern Peru. The oldest Chinchorro mummy of them all was a child found near the city of Arica, which radiocarbon dating estimates as having been buried in 5050 BC. read more
The oldest red blood cells ever identified have been found in the body of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Alps in 1991. The bloody find is a first for Ötzi's mummy, which has been under scientific scrutiny since a pair of hikers stumbled over the body frozen in ice on the Austrian-Italian border. read more