By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-26 17:12:37 | Updated at 2024-10-01 04:20:35
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DNA from world’s oldest cheese extracted from an unusual source — mummies
ny post ^ | 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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1 posted on 09/26/2024 9:36:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Doesn’t that sound appetizing?
2 posted on 09/26/2024 9:36:59 AM PDT by xoxox
To: xoxox
3 posted on 09/26/2024 9:40:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BenLurkin
4 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..
5 posted on 09/26/2024 9:43:40 AM PDT by Gman
To: BenLurkin
6 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?
7 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
8 posted on 09/26/2024 9:44:18 AM PDT by butlerweave
To: BenLurkin
9 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.....
10 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
11 posted on 09/26/2024 9:47:59 AM PDT by 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...)
12 posted on 09/26/2024 9:48:31 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: BenLurkin
13 posted on 09/26/2024 9:49:56 AM PDT by fwdude
To: dfwgator
14 posted on 09/26/2024 9:50:51 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: BenLurkin
15 posted on 09/26/2024 9:56:36 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
To: xoxox
16 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.
17 posted on 09/26/2024 10:03:56 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
To: BenLurkin
Q:what do you call a pharoh who are crackers in bed? A:a crummy mummy. but what about crackers with cheese?
18 posted on 09/26/2024 10:07:17 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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19 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.
20 posted on 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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