A Cheesy Discovery.

• Position: ANCIENT EGYPT - Brief article

Archaeologists studying an ancient Egyptian tomb recently made an exciting discovery: a hunk of 3,200-year-old cheese. When scientists found a broken clay jar filled with a hardened white substance, they suspected it was a type of food. (Feasts were often buried alongside wealthy Egyptians so the dead wouldn't go hungry in the afterlife.) The experts took a piece of the material and spent years studying it. It turned out to be one of the oldest cheese specimens ever uncovered. Scientists are now slicing into another...