That feels like something Jack Stratton would do... Upvote

The article is completely wrong.

>Just a stone's throw from King Tut's tomb, archaeologists have unearthed the pyramid of a never-before known ancient Egyptian queen; a cache of coffins, mummies and artifacts; and a series of interconnected tunnels.

They say it's a stone's throw away. The pyramid, the coffins, the mummies, the artifacts...

I don't know who can throw a stone hundreds of kms but I'd like to meet them.

It doesn't even require hundreds of years of use. By the time Cabot made it to Newfoundland, the coin was only 70 years old. To them it would have been a perfectly usable coin still when they brought it.

The coin was minted between 1422 and 1427. It could have very easily been brought by John Cabot's team in 1497. It's not very impressive to have someone from that expedition lose one coin that's 70 years old. It doesn't require any earlier contact than those that were known.

In the 1940's, the uninhabited Midway Atoll was developed as a boat plane hub for Pan Am and their trans-Pacific service. The planes would go from San Francisco to Hong Kong and back, stopping every few hours to refuel. The plane would follow this path: San Francisco - Honolulu - Midway Atoll - Wake Island - Guam - Manilla - Macau - Hong Kong.

It turns out that in the 1940's, pollution had already made its way to this remote island in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Japanese nets contained these glass balls used for floatation. When the nets were damaged, the glass balls broke free and floated to the uninhabited shores of Midway Atoll.

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