Mysterious Ancient Jade Artifact May Offer Evidence Of Trans-Pacific Contact – Did Ancient Sailors From California Visit New Guinea?

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When scientists examined a mysterious ancient jade artifact it quickly became clear that the object didn’t match anything that anyone knew about jadeite jade.

The artifact was found at the “wrong” place. It simply didn’t belong there, but there it was, nevertheless.

Mysterious Ancient Jade Artifact May Offer Evidence Of Trans-Pacific Contact – Did Ancient Sailors From California Visit New Guinea?

As soon as researchers started digging deeper into the story, they discovered something extraordinary.

What seemed strange was that the jade artifact was found thousands of miles away from the nearest known geological source.

 

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