Archaeology and chauvinism, a good example by the absurd... Just change the country and you can recycle this joke all around the world...
[FONT face="Courier New"]Digging to a depth of 1,000 meters last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1,000 years. The French came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone network centuries ago.
Not to be outdone, English scientists dug 2,000 meters. Shortly thereafter,headlines in the U.K. newspapers read: "English archaeologists have found traces of 2,000-year-old fiber-optic cable and have concluded that ancestors
had an advanced high-tech digital communications network 1,000 years before the French."
A week later, Israeli newspapers reported: "After digging to 5,000 meters in a Jerusalem marketplace, scientists found absolutely nothing. They thus concluded that 5,000 years ago Jews were using wireless technology."[/FONT]
