For millennia, the Taklamakan Desert environment preserved more than the bodies of those buried in China’s Tarim ... One of the most famous Tarim Basin mummies is the "Princess" or "Beauty ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples discovered alongside the 3,600-year-old Tarim Basin mummies in China. This groundbreaking ...

These mummies were unearthed in the Xiaohe cemetery of China’s Tarim Basin, dating from the Bronze Age. For years, scientists could only speculate on what these mysterious substances were.

Scientists retrieved ancient kefir cheese from Tarim Basin mummies dating back 3,500 years from the Xiaohe cemetery located in Xinjiang, Western China. By analyzing the DNA of Bronze Aged cheese ...

Date: 1000-600 B.C. The barren desert of China’s southern Tarim Basin has been the source of some of the ancient world’s most mysterious tattooed mummies. One of them belonged to a woman who ...

Researchers say they've discovered the world's oldest cheese. It was made more than 3,500 years ago in western China. It's been identified as a type of kefir cheese - similar to thick yoghurt ...

When researchers tested a mysterious substance on the heads and necks of ancient mummies found in China's Tarim Basin, they discovered that it was the world's oldest cheese. When you purchase ...

The Guinness Book needs to update its records: the oldest cheese in the world has been found smeared on the heads and necks of 3,600-year-old mummies in China’s Tarim Basin, surpassing the age ...

For the first time, scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years. The ...

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.