600 Old Chinese Coin in Africa

Anthropologists from University of Illinois Chicago and the Field Museum unearth a rare 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda that proves China traded with Africa before Europeans mapped that part of the world! More: AP: http://abcn.ws/ZAyy8P Sun-Times: http://bit.ly/16sKIHm Tribune: http://trib.in/12SRaZ5 Image courtesy of the Field Museum. 

Thanks to Mirjana Bartl Sampos MPHS Jan 66 for sharing.