In reference to the mummy Dr. Saroyan mentions dry air and dessicated mummification; Zack mentions as examples the Incan ice woman, the Tarim Basin mummies, and the peat bog Tolunda man. The first two ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

This summer’s paper dated the presence of H. floresiensis back to 700,000 years ago. The team estimated that the ...

大陆新疆的小河墓地出土了一具船棺，里面埋葬着服饰精美的「小河公主」，考古学家发现，她的胸前和身侧的草编篓中，都有神秘的乳黄色块状物，经过研究分析，证实这些块状物其实是克菲尔起司，也是迄今为止世界上发现的最古老起司实物。 Chinese ...

Chinese scientists discovered the world’s oldest known cheese, estimated to be 3,500 years old, buried with mummies in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang, China. DNA analysis of the cheese, found ...

The mummies date back to the Ptolemaic period. A team of Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with golden tongues and fingernails in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus.

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Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but sometimes organs ...