The cheese was dug up with mummified human remains in the Xinjiang region of China and offers insights into the origins of the dairy product known as kefir. By Kate Golembiewski Around 3,600 years ...

The world's oldest piece of cheese has been discovered - found laid across a mummy's neck. A 3,600-year-old coffin was opened in the Xiaohe Cemetery in Xinjiang, China, during an excavation in ...

Bronze Age desert dwellers unearthed from graves in what’s now northwest China were buried with cheese scattered on their heads and necks — perhaps as a snack packed for the afterlife.

It was made of cheese, and scientists now say it’s the oldest cheese ever found. “Regular cheese is soft. This is not. It has now become really dry, dense and hard dust,” said Fu Qiaomei ...

Scattered around the necks of some laid to rest in Xiaohe, a Bronze Age cemetery, archaeologists found pebble-sized hunks of a yellowish substance: the world’s oldest cheese. A new analysis of ...

It’s aged — 3,600 years. Scientists have successfully pulled a DNA strand from what they believe to be the world’s oldest cheese, yanking it from Bronze Age mummies in a Chinese graveyard ...

A mysterious white substance found on Bronze Age mummies in China has proven to be the world’s oldest cheese. The cheese remnants were first found about two decades ago, smeared on the heads and ...

New research has revealed that the mysterious white substance found alongside three ancient mummies was once a soft cheese called kefir Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The chunks of cheese were ...

World's oldest cheese reveals origins of kefir Date: September 25, 2024 Source: Cell Press Summary: Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside ...

Among the treasures they dug up were mysterious white lumps strewn across the mummies’ necks: chunks of the oldest preserved cheese in the world. Writing in the journal Cell on September 25th ...