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 mystery: What might the ancient cheese have tasted like? Tests have revealed that it was made mostly from sheep’s and goat’s milk. That means it might have had a flavor similar to sour cream, says Paul Kindstedt, a professor who studies cheese chemistry at the University of Vermont. “It was probably a very mild cheese,” he says, “spreadable and delicate.”