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 ...

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

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

Mummies found near China's Tarim Basin were buried 3,600 years ago with snacks for the afterlife. A decade after ...

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

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

When researchers tested a mysterious substance on the heads and necks of ancient mummies found in China's Tarim Basin, they ...

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

Scientists were finally able to analyze the DNA in the world’s oldest cheese, which was found two decades ago smeared on ...

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

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