The 5,300-year-old mummified corpse of iceman Oetzi has recently been discovered to contain the world's oldest blood cells. The team who found these details also debunked previous notions of the mummy, such as time of death after being wounded.
Oetzi may not have been a mummified, prehistoric hunter but, rather, a mummified, prehistoric herdsman. A new study on Oetzi's clothes reveal that they were made with the hairs of cattle and sheep.
Researchers Eduard Egarter-Vigl (left) and Albert Zink (right) take a piece of Iceman's hip bone. The DNA extracted from the bone was used to create a complete genetic profile of the man who lived in the southern Alps approximately 5,300 years ago.
