Dating back around 3,600 years, it was the oldest cheese ever found. ... The World's Oldest Cheese Was Buried in a Chinese Tomb 3,600 Years Ago. Now, Scientists Have Sequenced Its DNA.

World's oldest cheese found on ancient Chinese mummies. The kefir cheese “has now become really dry, dense and hard dust,” the co-author of a study published this week told NBC News.

What’s in the world’s oldest cheese? These mummies are giving up their secrets. The Tarim Basin mummies were discovered wearing tiny hunks of cheese around their necks—and a new DNA analysis ...

It was a whitish substance, and clearly very old, but nobody knew exactly what it was. Now, a new study has been able to solve the mystery: they were looking at the world’s oldest known cheese ...

“This is the oldest preserved cheese sample in the world,” says Fu, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. It’s almost 400 years older than the previous record holder (SN: 8/17/18).

Scientists were finally able to analyze the DNA in the world’s oldest cheese, which was found two decades ago smeared on 3,500-year-old mummies. New technology allowed the team to trace the ...

“This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered in the world,” says corresponding author Qiaomei Fu, from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at CAS.

Scientists have successfully pulled a DNA strand from what they believe to be the world's oldest cheese, yanking the acid from a bronze-age circa 2,000 B.C. graveyard off mummies in China.

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 ...

The World’s Oldest Cheese Was Buried in a Chinese Tomb 3,600 Years Ago. Now, Scientists Have Sequenced Its DNA New research has revealed that the mysterious white substance found alongside three ...

The L. kefiranofacians in the world’s oldest cheese is actually most similar to the Tibetan variety around today, challenging a long-held belief that kefir originated from the North Caucasus ...