{"id":1622,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/worlds-oldest-cheese-discovered-in-chinese-tomb\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","slug":"worlds-oldest-cheese-discovered-in-chinese-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/worlds-oldest-cheese-discovered-in-chinese-tomb\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#039;s oldest cheese discovered in Chinese tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-26 14:15:18<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The world&#8217;s oldest cheese has been found in an ancient Chinese tomb.<BR><br \/>\nThe cheese is estimated to be 3,600 years old &#8211; eclipsing the previous record by 400 years &#8211; and archaeologists think it could have been buried alongside a hungry Bronze Age farmer.<BR><br \/>\nDNA analysis revealed that it was made with cow and goat milk and it is suspected to be one of the first examples of the probiotic Kefir.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Qiaomei Fu, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: &#8220;This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered in the world.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This is a rare and valuable opportunity as food items like cheese are extremely difficult to preserve over thousands of years.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Studying the ancient cheese in great detail can help us better understand our ancestors&#8217; diet and culture.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nMany traces of historic cheese have been discovered worldwide but it is often traces left on tools rather than considerable chunks of the dairy product.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-26 14:15:18 The world&#8217;s oldest cheese has been found in an ancient Chinese tomb. The cheese is estimated to be 3,600 years old &#8211; eclipsing the previous record by 400&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}