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World’s oldest preserved cheese found in necklaces on mummies in China

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2024-09-25 15:00

This Mummy Cheese Is Full of Ancient Secrets

The world's oldest known cheese holds the key to kefir's mysterious origins. In 1911, an aboriginal hunter named Ördek first came across what looked like a long sand dune full of protruding wooden poles, within the flat and barren desert landscape of Northwes…

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We finally know how the world’s oldest cheese was made

The Tarim Basin mummies were discovered wearing tiny hunks of cheese around their necks—and a new DNA analysis is revealing its origins.

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