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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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Archaeologists discover mysterious mummies in Chinese desert
In a new study in the Nature journal, researchers analysed the genetic data gathered from 13 of the earliest known Tarim Basin mummies. They date back to 2,100 to 1,700 BCE and have revealed where ...
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Tarim mummies didn’t migrate during the Bronze Age, genetic analysis finds
Thursday's study shows the Tarim people collected technologies and cultures from thousands ... "Several new questions must shape future research,” Dupuy, of the Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, ...
scmp.com2 个月
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.