DNA from world’s oldest cheese extracted from an unusual source — mummies

ny post ^ | 09/25/2024 | By Alex Mitchell

[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.

[xoxox]

Doesn’t that sound appetizing?

[dfwgator]

[GSWarrior]

Velveeta?

[Gman]

No wonder their dead, looks like a serious case of Asian lactose intolerance..

[paintriot]

Head cheese. Yuck.

[monkeyshine]

Well the dead gotta eat, no?

[butlerweave]

Ya ,Chinese don’t eat cheese but they do use as body lotion

[equaviator]

Cheese ‘n’ rice!

[Tench_Coxe]

"The dairy delight is kefir cheese"

At least that's better than fromunda.....

[dfwgator]

Cheese and Onions!

[Jamestown1630]

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...)

[fwdude]

That ain’t cheese.

[Magnum44]

[bankwalker]

frumunda cheese ...

[ridesthemiles]

YUCK

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

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.

[Qwapisking]

Q:what do you call a pharoh who are crackers in bed? A:a crummy mummy. but what about crackers with cheese?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. Tarim Basin / Urumchi / Euro-ancestors.

[Qwapisking]

I got it...a muenster. blaming wifey for that one.