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

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

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

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 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 ...

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

Bizarre clumps of organic matter found buried alongside Bronze Age mummies in northwestern China have now been identified as ...

The ancient cheese is kefir cheese, similar to yogurt but with a tangier taste and milkier consistency. It contained the same ...