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

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

Researchers have discovered and analyzed DNA from the world's oldest cheese, found with the Tarim Basin mummies in China, ...

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

DNA tests suggest Bronze Age people who lived in far west China 3,500 years ago made kefir cheese, challenging beliefs about ...

Around 20 years ago, a group of archaeologists made a curious discovery: something had been smeared on the heads and necks of ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the Tarim Basin of northwestern China has revealed the world’s oldest known cheese, dating back ...

A 3,600-year-old coffin was opened in the Xiaohe Cemetery in Xinjiang, China, during an excavation in 2003 - 21 years later, ...

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

THE world’s oldest piece of cheese has been found in the tomb of a Chinese mummy. Archaeologists reckon a peckish Bronze Age ...