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{{/U}}said Wednesday the world’s oldest known noodles, dating back 4, 000
years, were made in China.
"Our discovery{{U}} (38)
{{/U}}that noodles were first produced in China about 4, 000 years ago," Lu
Hou Yuan from the Chinese Academy of Science said in an interview.
The noodles were{{U}} (39) {{/U}}in an overturned, sealed bowl in
an archaeological site near the Yellow River in north west China.
Until the{{U}} (40) {{/U}}, reported in the science journal
Nature, the{{U}} (41) {{/U}}written account of noodles was in a book
written during the East Han{{U}} (42) {{/U}}in China sometime between 25
and 220.
"This is the{{U}} (43) {{/U}}evidence of
noodles ever found," said Lu.
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scientists think a large earthquake and catastrophic flooding probably destroyed
the a