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 ...

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

These small lumps of fermented dairy, laid around the necks of the deceased, represent the longest-aged cheese ever ...

Scientists found the oldest cheese ever discovered in the world when examining three Bronze Age mummies from China.

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

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

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

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

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

Cheese production has been recorded in history for millennia, with murals in ancient Egyptian tombs dating back to 2000 BC, ...

Bronze Age desert dwellers unearthed from graves in what’s now northwest China were buried with cheese scattered on their ...