Police searching for a cheese wire attacker who killed a taxi driver in Scotland 41 years ago have announced a breakthrough ...

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 B.C.

Cheese dating back to the Bronze Age has shed light on our ancestors’ diets - and hold lessons for the present day ...

Some go gently into the night. Others die less prettily in freak accidents or deadly invasions, or after a showy display.

In a discovery that’s sure to delight both history buffs and cheese fans, scientists believe they have unearthed the world’s oldest cheese alongside mummies in Northwestern China. At a staggering ...

The discovery originated around 20 years ago when archaeologists were excavating the Tarim River basin in western China.

Being able to sequence the bacterial genes in the ancient kefir gave the researchers the chance to track how probiotic ...

The 3,500-year-old mummies unearthed two decades ago in Xinjiang region captured global attention this week after scientists sequenced DNA from three ...

When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered ...

A DNA analysis of the kefir cheese, first found about 20 years ago on 3,600-year-old mummies in China, confirms its age and pinpoints its origins.

Photo from Wenying Li, Xinjiang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute via EurekAlert A mysterious white substance found ...