Greek Archaeologist...

forbairt · 06-06-2007 12:57pm #1

After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Italian
scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came
to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone
network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the Italians, in the weeks that followed,
Turkish scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters. Shortly thereafter,
headlines in Turkish newspapers read: "Turkish archaeologists have
found traces of 200-year old copper wire, and have concluded that
their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications
network one hundred years earlier than the Italians."

One week later, "The Kathimerini", a Greek newspaper, reported the
following: "After digging as deep as 30-meters in fields near Athens,
Petros Petropoulos, a self-taught archeologist, reported that he
found absolutely nothing. Petros has therefore concluded that
300-years ago, Greeks were already using wireless."