'Iceman' mummy holds world's oldest blood cells
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 12:31
in Health & Medicine
The oldest red blood cells ever identified have been found in the body of Otzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Alps in 1991
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