Scientists discover oldest cheese in the world buried with mummies as afterlife snack
image: Wenying Li (CC BY-SA)
Mummies found near China's Tarim Basin were buried 3,600 years ago with snacks for the afterlife. A decade after archaeologists discovered the mummies in an ancient cemetery belonging to the Xiaohe people, scientists used DNA analyze to identify the specific food. Turns out, "the mysterious white substances smeared on the hea…
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