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 ...

The world’s oldest cheese, dating back 3,600 years, has revealed the origin of trendy kefir. Kefir is a type of fermented ...

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 jewelry. It ...

Bizarre clumps of organic matter found buried alongside Bronze Age mummies in northwestern China have now been identified as cheese. After a decade's work, DNA analysis has finally uncovered its ...

Fermented foods have played a profound role in human history, shaping diets and health for millennia. Among these, fermented ...

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 ...

Researchers in China have discovered the world's oldest cheese in a Bronze Age burial site. Right: Qiaomei Fu’s observing the dairy sample for powder-drilling in the clean room at the Institute of ...

MORTON GROVE, Ill., Nov. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lifeway Foods, Inc. (Nasdaq: LWAY), the leading U.S. supplier of kefir and fermented probiotic products that support the microbiome, today announced ...

A mummy from the Xiaohe Cemetery, with dairy remains scattered around the mummy’s neck. HONG KONG — When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, ...

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