The cheese-covered mummies are in the Xiaohe Cemetery, part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
The remainsconfoundingly buried in boat coffins surrounded by miles of sand dunesdate from 2,000 BCE to around 200 CE.
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The ancient kefir cheeses found at the Xiaohe cemetery.Photo: Yimin Yang
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A mummy from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang. Photo: Wenying Li
