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DNA from world’s oldest cheese extracted from an unusual source — mummies
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| 09/25/2024
| By Alex Mitchell
Posted on 09/26/2024 9:36:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
It’s aged — 3,600 years.
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.
The dairy delight is kefir cheese — a modern-day cream cheese health substitute — and was found strangely smeared or “scattered” around the heads and necks of preserved corpses, dating between 3,300 to 3,600 years ago, in northwest China’s Tarim Basin, according to research published in the journal Cell.
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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: agriculture; ancientautopsies; animalhusbandry; cheese; dietandcuisine; genealogy; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; tarimbasin; urumchi
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:36:10 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Doesn’t that sound appetizing?
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:36:59 AM PDT
by
xoxox
To: xoxox
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:40:04 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:40:52 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
(Don’t ever tell me “it can’t happen here.”)
To: BenLurkin
No wonder their dead, looks like a serious case of Asian lactose intolerance..
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:43:40 AM PDT
by
Gman
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:44:13 AM PDT
by
paintriot
(Die with your boots on )
To: BenLurkin
Well the dead gotta eat, no?
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:44:16 AM PDT
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: BenLurkin
Ya ,Chinese don’t eat cheese but they do use as body lotion
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:44:54 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
To: BenLurkin
"The dairy delight is kefir cheese"
At least that's better than fromunda.....
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:46:38 AM PDT
by
Tench_Coxe
(The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
To: equaviator
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:47:59 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: monkeyshine
I think that’s the idea; like ancient Egyptians being buried with food, furniture, etc. (I think I recall that they got honey from a tomb that was still edible...)
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:48:31 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: BenLurkin
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09/26/2024 9:49:56 AM PDT
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fwdude
To: dfwgator
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:50:51 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:56:36 AM PDT
by
bankwalker
(Repeal the 19th ...)
To: xoxox
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posted on
09/26/2024 9:58:20 AM PDT
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: BenLurkin
What a coincidence! Why, just the other day I saw a few rocks on the ground that I could have sworn were some fossilized moose turds.
To: BenLurkin
Q:what do you call a pharoh who are crackers in bed? A:a crummy mummy. but what about crackers with cheese?
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posted on
09/26/2024 10:07:17 AM PDT
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Qwapisking
("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
To: BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks BenLurkin. Tarim Basin / Urumchi / Euro-ancestors.
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posted on
09/26/2024 10:07:33 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Qwapisking
I got it...a muenster. blaming wifey for that one.
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09/26/2024 10:09:46 AM PDT
by
Qwapisking
("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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