Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. The intact cheese was ...

The cheese enabled scientists to find insights into how the Xiaohe people lived and their interaction with animals. The dairy samples were found "scattered around the necks of the mummies in the ...

F OR MORE than 3,500 years the mummified remains of the Xiaohe people lay undisturbed in a desert cemetery in Xinjiang in western China. Then, in 1979, a team of archaeologists got their hands on ...

“The Xiaohe people would have made cheese in the same manner that traditional producers make kefir cheese today, by using previously made kefir grains (similar to kombucha mother or bread ...

“The Xiaohe people would have made cheese in the same manner that traditional producers make kefir cheese today, by using previously made kefir grains (similar to kombucha mother or bread ...

How an enigmatic desert people made kefir. Hundreds of mummified individuals were found in the 1990s in what’s known as the Xiaohe cemetery in the Tarim Basin, an inhospitable desert area in ...

How an enigmatic desert people made kefir. Hundreds of mummified individuals were found in the 1990s in what’s known as the Xiaohe cemetery in the Tarim Basin, an inhospitable desert area in ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...