The World's Oldest Cheese Is Incredibly Unusual: It Was Found Around the Necks of 3,500-Year-Old Mummies

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It is difficult to determine with certainty which is the oldest cheese in the world, but scientists have abundant evidence that people have been consuming milk for thousands of years.

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A team of archaeologists has identified the world’s oldest cheese in the cemetery of Xiaohe, China, with an age of 3,600 years. What looked like a strange whitish substance scattered over the heads and necks of mummies of the Bronze Age turned out to be remains of kefir, a fermented dairy product that was used as a funeral offering. The finding, published this week in Cell magazine, advances in more than a millennium the evidence of cheese produ…