This unusual find sheds light on the diets and practices of our ancestors. Around two decades ago, archaeologists found a ...

Scientists in China retrieved kefir cheese from mummies dating back 3,500 years. The cheese was made from goat's milk and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

It’s aged — 3,600 years. Scientists have successfully pulled a DNA strand from what they believe to be the world’s oldest ...

Many of us will have expired foodstuffs sitting forgotten in the back of our fridges and cupboards, but nothing is going to ...