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'Iceman' Mummy Holds World's Oldest Blood Cells

05-02-2012 • livescience.com,Stephanie Pappas

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.

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