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World's oldest cheese found on ancient Chinese mummies. Mithil Aggarwal. September 26, 2024 at 7:01 AM. A mummy from the Xiaohe Cemetery, with dairy remains scattered around the mummy’s neck.
While the dairy product found with the mummies is the oldest intact cheese in the archaeological record, other evidence such as animal proteins in human dental calculus and milk residues on ...
It is unknown when cheese was first made. The earliest direct evidence for cheesemaking is now being found in excavated clay sieves (holed pottery) over seven thousand years old, for example in Kujawy, Poland, [4] and the Dalmatian coast in Croatia, the latter with dried remains which chemical analysis suggests was cheese.
A similar discovery of 3,200-year-old cheese prompted discussions about eating the “world’s oldest cheese,” the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported in 2018. Experts warned this ...
The resulting cheese has a very tangy, rich flavor and a creamy, dense texture, similar to brie. It may or may not have live culture remaining in the cheese after manufacture depending on the specific process. In 2024 scientists sequenced the DNA of 3,600 year-old pieces of kefir cheese found with a mummy in northwest China.
The cheese found on the mummies in this cemetery is the oldest preserved cheese in the world, likely made with a kefir starter. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Her entire body and boots were also coated in a white substance, likely also a dairy product but so far of unknown origin.
A 2018 scientific paper stated that the world's oldest cheese, dating to approximately 1200 BCE (3200 years before present), was found in ancient Egyptian tombs. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 2024, even older preserved remnants of cheese were identified on mummies in Xiaohe Cemetery in present-day Xinjiang .
Scientists discover a 3,300-year-old cheese, thought to be the world's oldest, in Egypt, but it is riddled with bacteria.