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

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

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

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

DNA tests suggest Bronze Age people who lived in far west China 3,500 years ago made kefir cheese, challenging beliefs about ...

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

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

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

Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. The intact cheese was ...

For the first time, scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim ...

Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years. The research suggests a new ...

THE world’s oldest piece of cheese has been found in the tomb of a Chinese mummy. Archaeologists reckon a peckish Bronze Age ...