The world’s oldest cheese, dating back 3,600 years, has been discovered in an unlikely place. After analysing ancient cheese found alongside mummies in China dating from the Bronze Age ...

They had a strange white substance smeared around their necks, which turned out to be chunks of preserved cheese. Dating back around 3,600 years, it was the oldest cheese ever found. The mummies ...

but scientists say the Tarim Basin samples are the oldest samples of cheese actually found. Fu and her team took samples from three tombs in the cemetery, and the team then processed the DNA to ...

It was made of cheese, and scientists now say it’s the oldest cheese ever found. “Regular cheese is soft. This is not. It has now become really dry, dense and hard dust,” said Fu Qiaomei ...