Traditionally, nut farmers have tackled the insect with chemical pesticides, or by destroying “mummies” — almonds left over after harvest. Mummies are a favorite winter shelter for the bugs.

Indie game developer and publisher Lost Turnip has confirmed the official release date for their latest title, Run From Mummies. We now know that the 2D action-adventure game, in which you explore ...

Scientists were finally able to analyze the DNA in the world’s oldest cheese, which was found two decades ago smeared on 3,500-year-old mummies. New technology allowed the team to trace the ...

However, we do not know the names that skeletons and mummies from the Stone Age had during their lifetimes, as there is no writing from that period. Would it make sense, then, to give prehistoric ...

When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was unearthed in northwestern China two decades ago, archaeologists uncovered a puzzling substance draped around her neck like jewellery. Remarkably ...

After analysing ancient cheese found alongside mummies in China dating from the Bronze Age, scientists have discovered the cheese is kefir. The research, published in the journal Cell, suggests a ...

BEIJING — In a discovery that’s sure to delight both history buffs and cheese fans, scientists believe they have unearthed the world’s oldest cheese alongside mummies in Northwestern China. At a ...

Scientists retrieved ancient kefir cheese from Tarim Basin mummies dating back 3,500 years from the Xiaohe cemetery located in Xinjiang, Western China. By analyzing the DNA of Bronze Aged cheese ...

Chinese scientists say they have discovered the world’s oldest known cheese, dating back around 3,500 years, buried alongside mummies in the Tarim Basin in far west China. The team found the DNA ...

With CT scans, Egyptologists can see remains in unprecedented detail without unwrapping them. Here are eight recent findings using this technology that changed the way we think of mummies. Advances in ...

In a previous study, researchers took tiny samples of the 3,500-year-old cheese that bedecked the mummies’ necks. An analysis of proteins in those bits revealed the presence of Lactobacillus ...