Discover the world's oldest cheese found on ancient mummies in China, its connection to gut health, and the history of ...

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 dated ...

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

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.