Most aged cheeses mature over a few months or even a few years. The world s oldest cheese sat for a little longer: more than 3,600 years. German researchers discovered the cheese intact on a mummy ...

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 ...

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, where the oldest ones are about 4,500 years old. But researchers say they have found mummies that are much older, on the other side of the world. “We ...

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For months, the museum in Philadelphia has been building buzz about its upcoming exhibit, "Secrets of the Silk Road," and the crowning jewel of its display: an amazingly intact mummy from western ...

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The Penn Museum says that its exhibit on China's silk road, which had many original artifacts pulled at the last minute by that country's government, will now open with a full complement of mummies ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The mummies have returned. A museum exhibit on the Silk Road includes a pair of ancient mummies, now that a dispute with the Chinese government is settled.

Since their discovery, the ancestry of hundreds of mummified bodies buried in boats in an inhospitable desert region of northwest China has puzzled and divided archaeologists. Found in the Tarim Basin ...