Though they died thousands of years ago, hundreds of bodies excavated in western China’s Tarim Basin look remarkably alive. They retain the hairstyles, clothing, and accoutrements of a long-past ...

A mummy from an Early Bronze Age cemetery of Xiaohe (1980–1450 BC) in Xinjiang, China and very old cheese. If you could only bring a handful of your most important things with you into the afterlife, ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known cheese sample in the world, around the neck of a 3,600-year-old mummy. Eating fermented food like cheese “may be one of our most ancient and influential, ...

The Guinness Book needs to update its records: the oldest cheese in the world has been found smeared on the heads and necks of 3,600-year-old mummies in China’s Tarim Basin, surpassing the age of a ...

TARIM MUMMIES : ANCIENT CHINA AND THE MYSTERY OF THE EARLIEST PEOPLES FROM THE WEST J P MALLORY VICTOR H MAIR ...

It’s aged — 3,600 years. Scientists have successfully pulled a DNA strand from what they believe to be the world’s oldest cheese, yanking it from Bronze Age mummies in a Chinese graveyard, circa 2,000 ...

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