The blood of Oetzi the Iceman is the oldest in the world
Researchers who study found Oetzi, a body than 5,300 years old, frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, I found the red blood cells around the wound.
Blood cells tend to degrade quickly, and blood tests in the first body and the back of Oetzi thing. Now, a study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface shows
Preservation of Oetzi significantly extends even to the shedding of blood shortly before his death.
This discovery is so far the red blood cells was observed earlier than ever before.
Not only the latest chapter in what could be described as a murder mystery of the oldest in the world.
Since it was first found on Oetzi by hikers with an arrow buried in the back, and experts decided that he died of his wounds, and when he had his last meal.
There was considerable debate about whether it fell and died and was buried there by others.
In February, zinc Albert and his colleagues at the Institute for mummies and EurAc Iceman in Bolzano, Italy, and published the full genome Oetzi.
Previous research has shown by the group, which was published in the journal Lancet, that the content of Oetzi hit by hemoglobin, a protein found in the blood - but it was years ago that the nature of red blood cells and prevented the sensitive preservation.
Professor zinc collaborated with researchers and colleagues from the Center for Intelligent Interfaces at the University of Darmstadt in Germany
