Mummies Help Recover World's Oldest Cheese

The oldest cheese of the world has been collected from the neck and chest of an ancient female mummy known as Beauty of Xiaohe. The archaeologists have unearthed world's oldest cheese from necks and chests of perfectly preserved mummies buried in China's desert sand. The 3,600-year-old cheese was discovered during archaeological excavations at the Xiaohe cemetery in the inhospitable Taklamakan desert. The researchers lead by Chinese team ...