Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mummy from the Xiaohe Cemetery, with dairy remains scattered around the mummy’s neck. (LI Wenying) HONG KONG — When the ...

You may not want to try the world’s oldest cheese now, but that doesn’t mean its history doesn’t define some of what we’re eating today. “This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered in the ...

The world's oldest piece of cheese has been discovered - found laid across a mummy's neck. A 3,600-year-old coffin was opened in the Xiaohe Cemetery in Xinjiang, China, during an excavation in 2003, ...

Bronze Age desert dwellers unearthed from graves in what’s now northwest China were buried with cheese scattered on their heads and necks — perhaps as a snack packed for the afterlife. A decade after ...

Scientists successfully extracted and sequenced DNA from a 3,600-year-old cheese found smeared on mummies in the Xiaohe cemetery in Xinjiang, Western China. The cheese, discovered nearly two decades ...

It’s aged — 3,600 years. Scientists have successfully pulled a DNA strand from what they believe to be the world’s oldest cheese, yanking it from Bronze Age mummies in a Chinese graveyard, circa 2,000 ...

A good vintage cheddar is a staple on any decent cheeseboard. But while most varieties are aged for around 12 months, this pales in comparison to the world's oldest cheese, which dates back 3,600 ...

HONG KONG — When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered a mysterious substance laid out along her neck like a piece of ...