Thursday's study shows the Tarim people collected technologies and cultures from thousands of miles away ... "Several new questions must shape future research,” Dupuy, of the Nazarbayev University in ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples discovered alongside ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.