I became interested in Ancient Egypt in the 4th grade when the school librarian actually allowed me to check out a book that should have been read by a 12th grader. That history book got me hooked. I am 48 now and still in love with Ancient Egypt. The time period I've always been most interested in is, of course, the Amarna Period but any of the 17th and 18th dynasties are interesting.

I don't have a lot of Egyptological books but I do have Kent Week's book about KV5, Baedeker's Egypt (new edition), TGH James, Ancient Egypt, EA Wallis Budge's The Mummy and The Book of the Dead, and last but not least, the British Museum's Book of Ancient Egypt.

Glad to see that there are more forums aboutLate Neolithic noodles: They may settle the origin debate

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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 was about 4,000 years old.

Scientists tell the journal Nature that the noodles were made using grains from millet grass - unlike modern noodles, which are made with wheat flour.

The discovery goes a long way to settling the old argument over who first created the string-like food.

Professor Houyuan Lu said: "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