A short article on newkarala.com tells the world about the latest Chinese archaeological discovery: a pot containing remains of beef soup or beef stew. The article, which is dated December 15, 2016, may be read here. It makes for particularly interesting reading in light of the earlier archaeological discovery of a noodle bowl whose contents resemble modern lo mein or perhaps dandan noodles.
The pot's contents are known to have contained beef because beef bones are among what was found inside. Archaeologists are studying the find, which came from ruins that are approximately 2,000 years old. Unfortunately, though photographs of the item have been posted on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, there were none with this news article.
Finds like this are exciting because they help provide information that will eventually help us reconstruct the early history of cooking.
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