This is a citation of an outside article. Gravyday is not responsible for its content. Original URL below. Oldest Cheese Ever Found in Egyptian Tomb Read Italian researchers also found traces of disease-causing bacteria in what they believe is probably extremely aged cheese. Last month, archaeologists cracked open a tomb excavated in Alexandria, Egypt, revealing three skeletons bathing in an crimson pool of sludgy sewage. In response, tens of thousands around the world immediately petitioned for the right to sip from the freshly uncorked casket of amontillado. (Spoiler: It hasn’t worked out.) But fear not, coffin connoisseurs: There’s a new artisanal artifact in town—the world’s oldest solid cheese, over 3,000 years in the making.(more)
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