A mysterious white substance sat beside Chinese mummies for 3,600 years; DNA analysis traced it to ancient kefir-like cheese

Archaeologists uncover ancient desert burial. Image credits: Chatgpt A strange white substance had been arranged around a woman’s neck, almost like jewelry, in a burial in northwestern China nearly 4,000 years ago. It remained there in the dry desert sand of the Tarim Basin for millennia. The material was uncovered during excavations at the cemetery in 2003. It looked like chalk dust. It turned out to be cheese. It was not just any cheese. These are among the oldest preserved cheese remains currently known from the archaeological record.A mystery buried in the desert As per Max Planck Institute of Molecular…