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Four Millennia Old Noodles Found In China
mollten writes "According to BBC News, the world's oldest noodles have been found at the Lajia site in China. Carbon Dating has found the remains to be over 4000 years old." From the article: "Prior to the discovery of noodles at Lajia, the earliest written record of noodles is traced to a book written during the East Han Dynasty sometime between AD 25 and 220, although it remained a subject of debate whether the Chinese, the Italians, or the Arabs invented it first ... Our discovery indicates that noodles were first produced in China."
A slashdot story was unearthed days after it was published by the bbc.
Pour some hot water on it and let it sit for about 1 minute! Maybe the skeleton is the remains of an ancient Chinese college student about to make a nice bowl of Ramen after a night of spending laboring away at his abacus, trying to find the bug in his algorithm for doing this new thing called multiplication.
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I heard about this days ago on NPR. Between the duplicates, late reports, and things more interesting than this being rejected... What is going on here at Slashdot?