After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, British scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
In the weeks that followed, an American Archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after, a story appeared in the New York Times: "American archaeologists have found traces of 250-year-old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the British."
One week later the Northern territory news reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 meters in his backyard in Tennant Creek, Billy Bunji, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Billy has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Australia had already gone wireless."