One thing that makes the world endlessly fascinating is that at any given moment, there are likely hundreds if not thousands of secrets lying in seemingly mundane places just waiting to be discovered.
It's a reality that many people suddenly find themselves face-to-face with when they move into a new house as the previous owners often leave a few Easter eggs behind whether they meant to or not.
And while many of these finds only mean so much to the new owners, there can occasionally come a time when people stumble across something that the whole world was looking for.
So it's easy to understand why a lecturer at one Washington D.C. university would be so excited about uncovering something that was once thought to no longer exist.