A single photo of a museum housing the "ancient discovery" (crates full of fancy goods from all over the world).
Not a single photo of a specific item from the "ancient discovery" (crates full of fancy goods from all over the world).
Journalism. BBC.
(Also, implying that goods from New York were being traded on the Silk Road is a huge stretch.)
I also don't find it all implausible that goods from New York made there way to this region in the 1920's. As the article mentions, although the connection point between Europe and East Asia was severed by the Ottomans, small sections of the trade network continued for centuries afterwards.
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