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World’s oldest cheese found with China mummies sheds light on early food production
For the first time, scientists have successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples discovered alongside ...
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World's oldest cheese found alongside mummies in China
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 ...
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The Takla Makan Mummies
In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn't appear to be the ancestors ...
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Chinese scientists discover 3,500-year-old cheese, linking ancient dairy to Kefir
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.