The cheese was dug up with mummified human remains in the Xinjiang region of China and offers insights into the origins of ...

Being able to sequence the bacterial genes in the ancient kefir gave the researchers the chance to track how probiotic ...

In China, a strange white substance was found on the heads and necks of several 3,600-year-old mummies. When researchers ...

The Tarim mummies of northwestern China have been hiding a culinary secret for millennia. Now, for the first time, scientists ...

The Guinness Book needs to update its records: the oldest cheese in the world has been found smeared on the heads and necks ...

Researchers have discovered and analyzed DNA from the world's oldest cheese, found with the Tarim Basin mummies in China, ...

Archaeologists discovered a 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman in northwestern China with cheese draped around her neck.

Discover the 3,600-year-old origins of kefir as scientists analyze DNA from ancient cheese, revealing insights into probiotic ...

When researchers tested a mysterious substance on the heads and necks of ancient mummies found in China's Tarim Basin, they discovered that it was the world's oldest cheese. When you purchase ...

The findings could reshape our understanding of ancient food production and microbial fermentation practices in early ...

Scientists have identified the oldest known cheese from the remains of Bronze Age mummies in China's Tarim Basin, dating back ...

By Kate Golembiewski Around 3,600 years ago, a young woman died and was buried in the Tarim Basin, a desert in what’s now the Xinjiang region of northwestern China. The dry conditions and her ...