The cheese dates back around 3,500 years and was buried alongside mummies in the Tarim Basin in far west China. The team found the DNA of goats and fermenting microbes from Bronze Age dairy samples.
These mummies were unearthed in the Xiaohe cemetery of China’s Tarim Basin, dating from the Bronze Age. For years, scientists could only speculate on what these mysterious substances were.
The cheese dates back around 3,500 years and was buried alongside mummies in the Tarim Basin in far west China. The team found the DNA of goats and fermenting microbes from Bronze Age dairy samples.