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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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