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The World's Oldest Cheese Was Buried in a Chinese Tomb 3,600 Years Ago. Now, Scientists Have Sequenced Its DNA“This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered in the world,” says co-author Qiaomei Fu, a paleogeneticist at the ...
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The world's oldest cheese has been discovered in a Chinese tombQiaomei Fu, a palaeogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, told NBC News: "Ordinary cheese is soft. That's not the case here. It has become a really dry, dense, hard dust." ...
Chinese scientists say they have discovered the world’s oldest known cheese. The cheese dates back around 3,500 years and was buried alongside mummies in the Tarim Basin in far west China.
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