Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. The intact cheese was ...

A mummy from the Xiaohe cemetery wears a necklace of cheese. Photograph Courtesy Wenying Li, Xinjiang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute. By Carolyn Wilke. September 25, 2024.

Many of us will have expired foodstuffs sitting forgotten in the back of our fridges and cupboards, but nothing is going to ...

Bronze Age dairy remains from the Xiaohe Cemetery. Yang Yimin / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Bronze Age coffin was discovered during the excavation of the Xiaohe Cemetery in 2003.

A 3,600-year-old coffin was opened in the Xiaohe Cemetery in Xinjiang, China, during an excavation in 2003 - 21 years later, a team found a substance identified as kefir cheese.

Scientists retrieved ancient kefir cheese from Tarim Basin mummies dating back 3,500 years from the Xiaohe cemetery located in Xinjiang, Western China. By analyzing the DNA of Bronze Aged cheese ...

The dairy remains of the mummy from the Xiaohe cemetery were scattered around the neck, laid out like a necklace. Credit... Wenying Li/Xinjiang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute.

A mummy from an Early Bronze Age cemetery of Xiaohe (1980–1450 BC) in Xinjiang, China and very old cheese. Credit: 杨益民/Yimin Yang et. al. via Journal of Archaeological Science ...

Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. The intact cheese was found with mummified remains in China.

The Bronze Age coffin was discovered during the excavation of the Xiaohe Cemetery in 2003. Since the woman’s coffin was covered and buried in the dry climate of the Tarim Basin desert, Fu said ...

How an enigmatic desert people made kefir. Hundreds of mummified individuals were found in the 1990s in what’s known as the Xiaohe cemetery in the Tarim Basin, an inhospitable desert area in ...