Chemists at Germany's Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology andGenetics found that the cheese is a lactose-free variety that was quick tomake.

德国普朗克分子细胞生物学与遗传学学院的化学家发现这块奶酪不含乳糖，而这种不含乳糖的奶酪可快速制成。

It might have been responsible forspreading dairy farming across Asia in the Bronze Age, the said.

所以他们认为，青铜器时代的亚洲就是靠这种奶酪而大力发展了乳品业。

‘We not only identified the product as theearliest known cheese, but we also have direct evidence of ancient technology,’analytical chemist and study

author Andrej Shevchenkotold USA Today.

“我们不仅确定了这个奶酪是已知的历史最悠久的奶酪，我们还获得了古老技艺的直接证据，”分析化学家和研究作者Andrej Shevchenko对《今日美国》如是说。

The method of making the cheese was cheapand would have been used by common people, he said.

制作这种奶酪的方法很廉价，普通人可能都会做，他说。

The cheese survived because of the unusual conditions of River Cemetery NumberFive in the Takalamn Desert in north western China ? the final resting place ofthe mummies.

这块奶酪之所以可以保存下来，是由于塔克拉玛干沙漠中五号河墓的特殊条件导致的——也就是这些木乃伊的安息之地。

They and the cheese were laid to rest onsand dunes near a river under large wooden boats wrapped so tightly in cow-hidethat the bodies were essentially vacuum-packed.

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