Phoenicians?
Gypsies?...........nah, they wouldn’t have a receipt.........
I will posit a better source is from the upper reaches of the Amazon river. There is developing very wide spread evidence of a lost civilization now overgrown completely by the rain forest.
The fact is, the rain forest so strongly protected by the enviros is in effect weeds that have grown up to cover the vast areas once occupied by these ancient men.
The tablet first traveled to the Amazon civilization and then worked it’s way northward.