After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Danish 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 Danes, in the weeks that followed, Swedish scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after, headlines in the Swedish newspapers read: "Swedish archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the Danes."

One week later, "The Klub", a Sunburg, Minnesota newspaper, reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 meters in corn fields near Games Lake, Ole Johnson, a self taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago Norwegians were already using wireless."

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