Four Millennia Old Noodles Found In China
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”