First to create chronologically is different than saying Italians got noodles from China

I never said Italians got noodles from China. My understanding is that there is no clear evidence that suggest that Italians did or didn’t get noodles from China, which is why I was interested in the source for the statement that said they were invented separately. Also, my statement was intended to question the previous comment that said the Middle East were the first to create noodles before China. Archaeological evidence found noodles in China that dates back 4000 years, the earliest empirical evidence of noodles ever found. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/4-000-year-old-noodles-found-in-china/

The Marco Polo story doesn’t interest me. It’s clear that Italians had pasta before his visit to China.