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10/26/2010: Could a rusty coin re-write Chinese-African history?
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- Written by Nancy Kiser
A team of Kenyan and Chinese archaeologists found a 15th century Chinese coin in a tiny village on Kenya's north coast. That poses a question that has excited both historians and politicians. How did a Chinese coin from the early 1400s reach East Africa almost 100 years before the first Europeans reached the region? Click here to read more in BBC News.