{"id":13167,"date":"2005-10-14T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/14\/archaeologists-find-worlds-oldest-noodles\/"},"modified":"2005-10-14T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T21:25:00","slug":"archaeologists-find-worlds-oldest-noodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/14\/archaeologists-find-worlds-oldest-noodles\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists Find World&#8217;s Oldest Noodles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>BBC<\/i> and <i>New Scientist<\/i> report that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/4335160.stm\" target=\"_blank\">archaeologists have unearthed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=mg18825212.800\" target=\"_blank\">the remains of the world&rsquo;s oldest noodles in China<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.<\/p>\n<p>Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As many people noted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/45807\" target=\"_blank\">MetaFilter thread<\/a>, this discovery was celebrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster\" target=\"_blank\">Pastafarians<\/a>, some of which hail the relics &ldquo;the only preserved noodly appendages of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a>.&rdquo;  Ramen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/fsm\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">fsm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/religion\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">religion<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112920161869125499?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC and New Scientist report that archaeologists have unearthed the remains of the world&rsquo;s oldest noodles in China: The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood. Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/14\/archaeologists-find-worlds-oldest-noodles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Archaeologists Find World&#8217;s Oldest Noodles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}