Hundreds of naturally mummified bodies buried in wooden boat-shaped coffins have been emerging from China's Tarim Basin since the 1990s. Their tall stature and cattle‑centric culture convinced ...

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 ...

Buried with felted and woven clothing in unusual boat graves, the so-called Tarim Basin mummies and their assortment of cultural influences have long puzzled archaeologists. Despite belonging to a ...

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 research ...

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 of a ...

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