An ancient piece of cheese, 3,600 years old, has brought to light the nutritional treasures of our ancestors, as scientists managed to extract DNA from it. The cheese, discovered in a mummy’s tomb in China, is the oldest ever found. It is a type of kefir cheese, which refers to today’s cream cheese that is often used as a substitute for healthy eating. Strangely, it was found scattered around the heads and necks of mummified bodies dating back 3,300 and 3,600 years and found in the Tarim region of northwestern China, according to a study published in the journal Cell. Cheese in the rituals of the dead According to nypost, this white substance was first detected two decades ago, but it was only recently confirmed that it is cheese. The researchers made this rare discovery in several tombs in the Xiaohe Cemetery, where the cheese had been placed as a smear on the heads and necks of the dead. Researcher Xiaomi […]
Source: News Beast
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