After analysing ancient cheese found alongside mummies in China dating from the Bronze Age, scientists have discovered the cheese is kefir. The research, published in the journal Cell, suggests a ...

With slit throats and broken skulls, these individuals may have been victims of ritual sacrifice, just like the mummies of China's Takla Makan Desert. Photos: (4) courtesy The Mountain Institute ...

Archaeologists now think they may have been the citizens of an ancient civilization that existed at the crossroads between China and Europe. Mummies of "Tomb 2" This mummy of a young woman was ...

Around twenty years ago, a team of archaeologists discovered a white cheese buried with several mummies in China's Tarim Basin in the north-west of the country. The mummies date back around 3,500 ...