4000 Year Old Noodles Found
Roger Highfield
The Daily Telegraph
Calcutta Telegraph, India
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London (UK):
A bowl of Neolithic noodles has revealed that China was the most likely birthplace of this popular food.
For millennia, arguments have raged about whether the noodle was invented by the Chinese, Italians or Arabs.
Now a sealed earthenware bowl of beautifully preserved, thin yellow noodles about 4,000 years old has been found by Dr Houyuan Lu, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with colleagues in Beijing and Louisiana.
“This is the earliest empirical evidence of noodles ever found,” said Lu. “This study has established that the earliest noodle production occurred in China.”
The 20-inch-long noodles were found inside a sealed bowl under 10 feet of sediment in Lajia, by the Yellow River in China.
Oct. 13, 2005
Roger Highfield
The Daily Telegraph
Calcutta Telegraph, India
__________________
London (UK):
A bowl of Neolithic noodles has revealed that China was the most likely birthplace of this popular food.
For millennia, arguments have raged about whether the noodle was invented by the Chinese, Italians or Arabs.
Now a sealed earthenware bowl of beautifully preserved, thin yellow noodles about 4,000 years old has been found by Dr Houyuan Lu, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with colleagues in Beijing and Louisiana.
“This is the earliest empirical evidence of noodles ever found,” said Lu. “This study has established that the earliest noodle production occurred in China.”
The 20-inch-long noodles were found inside a sealed bowl under 10 feet of sediment in Lajia, by the Yellow River in China.
Oct. 13, 2005
