Arizona citizen., 1875-10-30
OUR BURIED EMPIRES.
A Remarkable Article on Am
 cient America.

prove the existence of a great Mexico
 Central American empire in ancient
 times, called Xibalba The Kings of
 the old American empire reigned in
 couples. Together they constituted a Grand Council of the empire. They
 had a tradition of flood, which they lcalled the Atlas, from all (wateg,) the ietymOlogy of which word is found on ly Tn the Nahuati tongue. Here we find the derivation of the various
 names. Nahua-atlan, Mazatlan and At
 Ian, which have been given 10 cities
 and towns of Mexico and Central Amer
 ican continent. There is scarcely ground for doubt that this continent had been
 VISITED BY THE IRISH
 Before the beginning of the sixth cen
 tury of our era. Indeed, Virgil, Saint
 of that country, was accused by a Bish- op to Pope Zachary of teaching heresy respecting the existence of continent
 on the western side of the Atlantic, and
 made a journey to Rome to defend him. i self He succeeded in convincing the
 Pontiff that his countrymen had had intercourse with a country beyond the ocean.
 But the most remarkable part of these relations is the evidence that America was peopled by great and prosperous race-that splendid cities existed and mighty monarchs reigned.
 l. was doubtless the golden age of the ancient American civilization, when the stranger came to Carthage, and when the Meropes visited the Fly perboreans. The venerable man who, We are told, came to Chios before the time of Alexander, from the great is- land beyond the Atlantic ocean, might have been a sage from Uxmal, Ometi- pc, Allan, P:lcnque, or Cholula. Or i' may be possible that he went from that still more ancient seat of civiliza- lion, the relics of winch remain in the county of Chickasaw, Mississippi.
 What mean the pyramids of the Ya- zoo valley? These huge piles of earth reared by human hands, were the work of 8 race every authentic trace of winch has vanished. In tEe valley of the Tennessee, near the town of Florence. in Alabama, there is mound or pyra- mid
 STILL ABOUT SEVENTY FEET HIGH, The four sides of which face the car dinal points of the compass, and are formed with aeome;ucal precision. The b lsc of this grand work covers q little mere than an acre of ground. In the immediate vicinity of tbis large pyramid there are four smaller ones, which occupy the position of corners, enclosing aperfec, quadrangular space. This great pyramid Was doubtless, al some time in tbe forgotten past, sur rounded by a temple, in which the an- cient American sun-worshipperS per formed their devotions. Perhaps at. the very time when the subjects of Sc rostris were building the walls and gates of Thebes, great city covered this plain, through whose streets busy thousands rushed But the city has crumbled away, and the people have passed to oblivion's shoreless gulf.
 In the region from Fort Pillow to Vicksburg, and from the Mississippi to the Tennessee and Tombigbee, there are remains of ancient civilization found in many localities. At Fort Pickering. below Memphis, and at. Florence, Ala, and between Fernando. and Commerce, and in Chickasawl county, and along the Yazoo river, and near the town of POrtersville, Tenn, there are collections of burial mounds and pyramidal temple sites, covering large areas, which show that in these localities the
 PREDECESSORS OF THE WILD INDIANS Had stately cities But those who. reared them and dwelt in them lie en- tombed in their ruins.
 We can almost trace the course of civilization on the American continent by the monuments which have been left. The mound-builders of the north ern parts of America gave place to. savage tribes from the region still further north. These were doubtless hordes of Scythians, forced out of Asia by some earlier Zanghis, khans and who precipitated them selves on the more civilized and pacit- ic dwellers in American cities, as their kindred barbarians poured down upon the luxury-enervated Romans and came near extinguishing the torch of civili-I zation which for centuries had illu- minated the shores of the Mediterra- mean.
 Forced from their ancient seats by the fresh ERUPTION OF SAVAGE MONGOLIANs, ] Vino were the progenitors of most oil the North American tribes of Indians, the mound builders, who had received their civilization from the early Phe- nician adventurers, migrated south ward through Texas and Mexico, and finally into the central and southern
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