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The world's oldest known noodles have been found at Lajia. [10] The thin yellow strands were found in an upturned pot in 2005 and radiocarbon dated to around 4,000 years ago (c. 2000 BCE). [10]
Sometimes artifacts and (very rarely) actual preserved foodstuffs are discovered. In October 2005, the oldest noodles yet discovered were located at the Lajia site near the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Qinghai. The site has been associated with the Qijia culture. Over 4,000 years old, the noodles were made from foxtail and broomcorn ...
The earliest written record of noodles is found in a book dated to the Eastern Han period (25–220 CE). [1] Noodles made from wheat dough became a prominent food for the people of the Han dynasty. [4] The oldest evidence of noodles was from 4,000 years ago in China. [1]
“This finding in Çatalhöyük is the world’s oldest bread,” the head of the excavation, Ali Umut Turkcan, told Anadolu Agency, a Turkish state-run newspaper. The 8,600-year-old bread found ...
The title of the world’s oldest person now belongs to Inah Canabarro Lucas, who is also 116 years old. She was born on June 8, 1908, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She was born two weeks after ...
Beer is recorded in the written history of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt and is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages. [75]Kykeon was a common beverage of sustenance in ancient Greece, most often consisting mainly of a barley gruel mixture with various additives, sometimes written as having psychoactive properties associated with religious visions.
Muja, an American alligator at Belgrade Zoo, is considered the oldest alligator in the world. [121] Muja is more than 80 years old. [122] Thaao, an Andean condor born c. 1930, died at the age of 79 or 80 in 2010. [123] Fatou, a gorilla at the Berlin Zoo is the oldest gorilla ever at the age of 67. [124]
Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the Guinness World Records’ oldest living person, has died. She was 116. Itooka died on Dec. 29 at a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in central ...