“This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered in the world,” says co-author Qiaomei Fu, a paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in a statement from the journal.

It was made of cheese, and scientists now say it’s the oldest cheese ever found. “Regular cheese is soft. This is not. It has now become really dry, dense and hard dust,” said Fu Qiaomei ...

The University of Leeds has acquired the oldest known manuscript about British cheesemaking and has made it available as a ...

These small lumps of fermented dairy, laid around the necks of the deceased, represent the longest-aged cheese ever discovered–at about 3,500 years old. Not only is the ancient cheese incredibly ...

“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. “Food ...

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 ...

A mysterious white substance found on Bronze Age mummies in China has proven to be the world’s oldest cheese. The cheese remnants were first found about two decades ago, smeared on the heads and ...

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 them.

"This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered in the world," says Qiaomei Fu, the paper's corresponding author at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ...

Now, a new study has been able to solve the mystery: they were looking at the world’s oldest known cheese sample. The Tarim Basin mummies date back around 3,300 to 3,600 years, placing them in ...

Wenying Li “This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered in the world,” says co-author Qiaomei Fu, a paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in a statement from the journal.