Would you eat ancient butter? A 2,000-year-old 20-pound chunk of butter has been unearthed from a peat bog in Ireland, which is said to still be edible. The large lump of butter was discovered by ...

Sliced butter on a wooden cutting board. - Nelea Reazanteva/Getty Images Ahh, the wonders of modern refrigeration! It's easy to take for granted, but the ability to safely store perishable food to ...

A strange object with a “cheesy” smell turned out to be an ancient discovery, one of the largest of its kind in Ireland. Oftentimes, ancient discoveries come out of archaeological sites, but sometimes ...

Finding buried treasure is a dream as old as stories themselves. Treasure chests overflowing with gold doubloons, shiny lamps containing genies, gargantuan lumps of thousand-year-old butter. Okay, ...

(CNN) — Turf cutter Jack Conaway was cutting peat for fuel in the Emlagh bog when he made a surprising and smelly discovery. Buried 12 feet under, Conaway found a massive 22 pound (10 kilogram) chunk ...

Think that butter in the back of your fridge is old? Last week, a man harvesting peat in Ireland’s Meath County unearthed a massive lump of 2000-year-old “bog butter.” It weighs around 22 pounds and ...

A Donegal farmer made a historic find unearthing a 22kg slab of bog butter, believed to be one of the largest finds of its kind discovered in Ireland, possibly dating back as far as the Bronze Age.

A 2,000-year-old orb of butter weighing 22-pounds was recently discovered in Co Meath, Ireland. Ancient butter experts believe that it was once offering to the gods. It’s also “theoretically… still ...

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Ancient denizens of what is now Ireland and Scotland buried stashes of so-called “bog butter” in peat bogs, presumably to stave off spoilage. Thanks to the unique chemistry of those bogs, the stashes ...

Long before the invention of refrigerators, ancient people found creative ways to keep their dairy products fresh. In parts of Ireland and Scotland, that sometimes involved burying mounds of butter in ...