[link to www.philipcoppens.com]

"What sense can we make of all this? Could a golden sarcophagus, allegedly found in an Illinois cave, be evidence of pre-Columbian transoceanic travel between the "Old World" and the Americas, as so many people have claimed? While Burrows described what the cave looked like and what it contained, fortunately most of the artefacts removed from the cave were photographed early on, in part due to the efforts of James Schertz and Fred Rydholm."

Curiously, the LDS Mormon church holds many
of the plates, gold, and Egyptian and
Hebrew artifacts that were found in the cave.