'It's an obvious forgery," Sandra, the experienced lab technician informed her clients. She wouldn't have even run the tests, but when the client was loaded and willing, and the lab could barely afford to curate the artifacts, let alone pay the techs a dollar above minimum wage...
"What?!" exclaimed the four annoying 'archaeologists' (and Sandra used the term extremely loosely when applying it to these particular people).
"That can't be!" Gina voiced her disbelief.
"But we found it at a site in Mexico!" objected Mack. "And, as we have already proven to the world before, the aliens were clearly involved in the development of the civilizations located there!"
Sandra couldn't help but roll her eyes. She hid the gesture by turning back around to the image of the 'map' on her computer screen, although there was no need to refer to it instead of the original, considering how obviously contrived the 'ancient alien map' had been.
Four years of undergraduate and two years of masters study for this!
"Look," she said, beginning to lose her patience. "It's not ancient, it's not even old! The yellowing is amateur at best, more on par with the technique children use to make treasure maps."
The four 'experts' stared blankly at her. She knew the type. Crackpots, pseudoscientists...they'd only hear what they wanted to hear. That was why she ran the tests, as if they'd pay any attention to those either. They wouldn't know real proof if it smacked them in their dense skulls. The lucky bastards just happened to be able to sucker a rich old looney into believing their psychotic theories and leaving them all his money.
"See this test result right here," she pointed it out explicitly, had highlighted and bold-faced the results in anticipation of their arrival. "This says that a substance in the analysis of the paper was tea leaves. This document was falsely aged, and rather superficially, with a tea bag!"
"The aliens must have made it look like a forgery to fool those without enough courage and faith to discover Atlantis," Mack said. "But we have plenty of that, and no underqualified lab technician can tell us otherwise! No one can stop us no matter-"
"It's written in crayon for god's sake!" Sandra exclaimed.
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