The world's oldest cheese was found inside the young woman's tomb!
October 2, 20241 Min Read

International Desk: Two decades ago, the body of a young woman in a coffin was recovered from the burial ground. Archaeologists and scientists have been busy researching it for two decades. A piece of cheese was found in the young woman's coffin, which archaeologists claim is the world's oldest cheese.

They claim that the thing inside the coffin is 3600 years old. In 2003, archaeologists recovered the young woman's coffin from the Xiaohe burial site in Xinjiang province, China. They found a piece of cheese near the neck of the young woman's skeleton.

"This is not an ordinary object," said Fu Qiaomei, an archaeologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. This is kefir cheese. The young woman's skeleton has cheese caked like dust. With her were the girl's boots and a hat. Archaeologists claim that the girl's relatives kept her favorite things in the coffin during burial.