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2 days ago · OLDEST CHEESE.jpg. To China now, and the discovery of the world’s oldest cheese. Scientists believed that a ‘Caerphilly’ preserved substance dating back 3600 years that they found smeared on the heads and necks of mummies in the Tarim Basin was a dairy product, but it wasn’t until recent advancements in DNA analysis that they were able ...
3 days ago · In the late 1990s, archaeologists working in the arid Tarim Basin, in the middle of China’s Xinjiang region, excavated hundreds of boat-shaped coffins dating back to the Bronze Age, about 3500 years ago.
4 days ago · The Tarim Basin mummies were discovered wearing tiny hunks of cheese around their necks—and a new DNA analysis is revealing its origins. ... Become a subscriber and support our award-winning ...
3 days ago · A decade after the dairy discovery on strikingly intact remains mummified by the Taklamakan Desert’s arid conditions, scientists have extracted and sequenced DNA from the 3,600-year-old cheese ...
2 days ago · A decade after the dairy discovery on strikingly intact remains mummified by the Taklamakan Desert’s arid conditions, scientists have extracted and sequenced DNA from the 3,600-year-old cheese ...
3 days ago · This mummy was excavated in 2003 and the researchers always thought this was a bit of jewelry. Only recently did they discover it was cheese. They identified the cheese as kefir cheese, which is made by fermenting milk using kefir grains.
3 days ago · The world's oldest piece of cheese has been discovered - found laid across a mummy's neck. A 3,600-year-old coffin was opened in the Xiaohe Cemetery in Xinjiang, China, during an excavation in 2003, where a substance was draped across the neck of a mummified young woman.
