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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese scientists say they have discovered the world’s oldest known cheese. The cheese dates back around 3,500 years and was buried alongside mummies in the Tarim Basin in far west China.

World's Oldest Cheese Reveals Origins of Kefir Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China ...

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Up until 2023, Alleva Dairy had been famous for being the oldest cheese shop in America but had to temporarily close due to financial difficulties stemming from losses during the pandemic.

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 ...