CHOW MINGING; Chinese discover 4000-year-old bowl of noodles.Byline: By Donna Watson SCIENTISTS have unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia. Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. a 4000-year-old bowl of noodles noo·dle 1 n. A narrow, ribbonlike strip of dried dough, usually made of flour, eggs, and water. [German Nudel. . The find shows the dish was being eaten more than 1000 years earlier than previously thought. And they could supply the proof that the Chinese invented pasta before the Italians. Lu Houyuan, a researcher with China's Institute of Geology and Geophysics in Beijing, said: "These are definitely the earliest noodles ever found." The noodles were buried 10ft deep in sediment of the Yellow River, in north-eastern China, after experts lifted out an upturned bowl. They believe the noodles were made by pulling dough into long strands before boiling. The noodles, up to 1ft 8in long, sat on a mound of silt which had sealed them in the bowl following a major earthquake and flood. Dr Houyan said: "The bowl was found in fine clay. When we lifted it off, the remains of the noodles were found on top of the cone of sediment that had filled the inverted earthenware container. "Chinese people The following is a '''list of famous Chinese-speaking/writing people. Note in Chinese names, the family name is typically placed first (for example, the family name of "Xu Feng" is "Xu"). say Marco Polo took noodles from China back to Italy but Italians say they had noodles before that. "All this has been based on documentary material, personal accounts and menus. But we've been unable to find any actual material - until now." The noodles were made from broomcorn broomcorn: see sorghum. and foxtail millet, rather than wheat or rice. The findings were published in science magazine Nature CAPTION(S): HIDDEN: The noodles |
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