Mummies dating from between 2,000 B.C. to 200 A.D. were uncovered in tombs in the Tarim Basin in northwest China A Bronze Age and well-preserved mummies were discovered in far west China's ...

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

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.

Around twenty years ago, a team of archaeologists discovered a white cheese buried with several mummies in China's Tarim Basin in the north-west of the country. The mummies date back around 3,500 ...

Archaeologists discovered mysterious white substances smeared on the heads and necks of several mummies found in the Xiaohe cemetery in China’s Tarim Basin around 20 years ago. The mummies ...

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.

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.

Archaeologists now think they may have been the citizens of an ancient civilization that existed at the crossroads between China and Europe. Mummies of "Tomb 2" This mummy of a young woman was ...

Since the woman’s coffin was covered and buried in the dry climate of the Tarim Basin desert, Fu said, it was well preserved, as were her boots, hat and the cheese that laced her body.