800 Year Old Mobile Phone discovered! Kind of.....

Another reason to be sceptical about stories on the internet surfaced late last year, with images of a clay object that looked a lot like an old Nokia style mobile phone, complete with Sumerian style cuneiform characters on clay buttons. Turned out of course that it was simply an art piece that someone had taken the photo of and wrapped a fake story around it. Was pretty obvious it was a hoax to begin with but it's sad how quickly these stories can be circulated at face value, without any form of fact checking.