来自MSN3 个月
Talk about vintage! Scientists extract DNA from world's oldest cheese
a team of archaeologists discovered mysterious white substances smeared on the heads and necks of several mummies found in the Xiaohe cemetery in Northwestern China's Tarim Basin. These mummies ...
Cambridge University Press22 天
Reconstructing the Human Population History of East Asia through Ancient Genomics
Although much has been learned through the recent analysis of ancient populations in these regions, many crucial puzzle pieces are still missing, notably the Yangtze River Basin, where rice ...
来自MSN2 个月
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 ...
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.