The archaeological discoveries of this last century locate the beginning of wheat farming and the relevant civilisation some 8,000-10,000 years ago, between the Valley of the Jordan River and Mesopotamia.
Wheat spreads from Palestine to minor Asia, then to Greece and Europe.
They were pasta ribbons, called l gana by the Romans, from where the present name lasagna comes. C. describes l gana in its book De re coquinaria . C., in the period of the huge Islamic expansion. Much more reliable new appear around the end of the Middle Age. This testimony is important since he's clearly speaking about dried pasta.