The Tarim Basin mummies were discovered wearing tiny hunks of cheese around their necks—and a new DNA analysis is revealing ...

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

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

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

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

Шинжааны бүс нутгаас гадна БНХАУ дахь уйгурын өөр нэг томоохон Эртний Зүүн хойд Азичууд Zhang, Fan (November 2021). "The genomic origins of the Bronze Age Tarim Basin mummies". Nature (in англи). 599 ...

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

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

Scientists have unearthed ancient kefir cheese from mummies dating back 3,500 years in China's Xinjiang region. Analysis of the cheese's DNA reveals insights into the lives and interactions with ...

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

The ancient cheese is kefir cheese, similar to yogurt but with a tangier taste and milkier consistency. It contained the same ...