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 ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists in China retrieved kefir cheese from mummies dating back 3,500 years. The cheese was made from goat's milk and ...

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 ...