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

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

Around 20 years ago, a group of archaeologists made a curious discovery: something had been smeared on the heads and necks of ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered ...

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

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 ...