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4 days ago · Scattered around the necks of some laid to rest in Xiaohe, a Bronze Age cemetery, archaeologists found pebble-sized hunks of a yellowish substance: the world’s oldest cheese. A new analysis of ...
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- Oldest Edible Cheddar
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photo source: Wikimedia Commons Bitto Storico may not be an ancient cheese like the others on this list, but it is promoted as being the world’s oldest edible cheese. These cheese from the Valtellina Valley in Italy can be aged for up to 18 years, which is significantly longer than any other cheeseon the market. However, most Bitto Storico for sale...
photo source: Chicago Reader In 2012, news reports surfaced that a man from Wisconsin was selling 40 year old cheddar he had found in the back of the cooler at his cheese shop in the town of Oconto. The owner/creator of the cheddar Ed Zahn didn’t know the cheddar existed until he was cleaning out his shop, which has now been closed. Zahn also found...
photo source: BBC News Recently, another discovery was made claiming that the world’s oldest cheese had been found in Egypt. While this cheese isn’t the oldest in the world, it is the oldest ever discovered from Ancient Egypt. The cheese, which was described as “solidified whitish mass”, was found jars from the tomb of Ptahmes, a high-ranking Ancie...
photo source: Live Science Although there are older traces of cheese from pottery, chunks of yellowish substance found with mummies from China’s Taklamakan Desert are currently the oldest pieces of cheese ever discovered. According to researchers, the cheese was probably buried with the mummies to be used as a snack for the afterlife. The cheese wa...
photo source: Smithsonian Magazine In 2012, a scientific paper was released discussing the discovery of what is believed to be some of the earliest evidence of cheese making. A new analysis was conducted on 7,000 year old pottery shards from Poland. The pottery shards had holes in them that look very similar to modern cheese strainers. Researchers ...
photo source: National Geographic A recent study from September 2018, provided evidence for what is believed to be the oldest cheese in the world. The research revealed that the Neolithic people from the Dalmatian coast of Croatia may have been making cheese over 7,200 years ago.Like many of the earliest traces of cheese, scientists found dairy rem...
4 days ago · This dairy decoration is the “oldest cheese in the world,” said Qiaomei Fu, a paleogeneticist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
3 days ago · 11 hours ago. When scientists discovered the world’s oldest preserved cheese smeared on the necks of ancient mummies in China, it raised a lot of questions. Now DNA analysis is answering some of ...
3 days ago · A mysterious white substance found on the necks of ancient mummies in China turned out to be the world’s oldest known cheese. Now, its DNA has given scientists a “clearer picture” of life ...
4 days ago · Sep 25, 2024. Recent DNA analysis 1 has unveiled an extraordinary discovery: the world’s oldest cheese, dating back 3,600 years, was found buried alongside mummies in northwestern China. This discovery offers a rare glimpse into the dietary practices of the ancient people of the Tarim Basin, highlighting how early humans preserved and ...
3 days ago · Scientists say the world’s oldest cheese was found smeared on the mummies’ heads and necks. (Wenying Li) Researchers earlier believed these substances might be a type of fermented dairy product.
