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The Economic Times
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4,000-year-old noodles found in China: Scientists discover the world's oldest bowl buried beneath the Yellow River region that survived an earthquake and flood

Think about what you had for dinner last night. There is a decent chance noodles were involved in some form — a bowl of maggi, a plate of chowmein, or something fancier. Noodles are everywhere. Billions of people eat them every single day.

But where exactly did they come from? That question has been argued about for decades among food historians, archaeologists, and researchers. And one discovery in the Qinghai province of northwest China has done more to answer it than almost anything else.

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