[Bill Douglas]

After
having dug to a depth of 10 feet 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.

Not
to be outdone by the British, in the weeks that followed, an American
archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story
published in the New York Times: "American archaeologists, finding
traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their
ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50
years earlier than the British".

One week later,
New Zealand's "Stuff" reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 feet in his backyard in Jerusalem, Wanganui Kohi Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported
that he found absolutely bugger-all. Kohi has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, New Zealand had already gone wireless."