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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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Tarim mummies didn’t migrate during the Bronze Age, genetic analysis finds
Thursday's study shows the Tarim people collected technologies and cultures ... of the Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, added. “Do the mummies represent a population confined to the basin from an ...
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Strange Rocks Clinging to Mummies Could Be World's Oldest Cheese
The human remains were recovered from some of hundreds of coffins found in the Xiaohe Cemetery in China's Tarim Basin in the 1990s. Smeared across the heads and necks of a number of the mummified ...
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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.