For the first time, scientists have successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples discovered alongside ...

Discover the world's oldest cheese found on ancient mummies in China, its connection to gut health, and the history of fermented foods.

A research team led by Prof. An Zhisheng and Prof. Zhou Weijian from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese ...

In a new study in the Nature journal, researchers analysed the genetic data gathered from 13 of the earliest known Tarim Basin mummies. They date back to 2,100 to 1,700 BCE and have revealed where ...

The cheese dates back around 3,500 years and was buried alongside mummies in the Tarim Basin in far west China. The team found the DNA of goats and fermenting microbes from Bronze Age dairy samples.

China has identified newly proven oil equivalent reserves of 55.56 million tons in the Tarim Basin, located in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the China Geological Survey said Wednesday.