Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-17
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Herculanum and PomPem in Ar,1oDs.
IBy John A. sprins.I

For the last twelve years Mir. G. W Baudelisr of Highland, Illinois, has dedicated himself almost exclusively to the careful study of the original natives ot this country, and he has achieTed the most brilliant results, completely over throwing by scientific researches the old theories of the Spsnistds, established and generally accepted as correct. for he last three hundred years, and he has shed s new light upon tbe ancient his tory of the Toltecs and Aziecs.
 Bandelier found Tn his last expedition to Arizona. near Los Mu,rtos, the ruins of several cities, which, according to all appear snces, are the seven cities of CibolR," Of whose masnifcence, great extension and enormous riches, the Aztecs made such slD, si fabulous reports 70 the Spanish coDqusrors.
 FerdinArd ard CJTiez tried 10 find that splendid empire but tbe expedition returned without having accomplished its purpose for the simple reason that already at that time the famous cities were nothing out a mass of runs The Aztecs had related whs. they krew from tradition, which is the unwTItten book of record of all Indian tribes.
 But there are not only seven cities winch have been discovered 90 far. in asmucn Gs the whole wide valley seems to have contained a series of cities, systematically arranged ID such s man ner thaI in every cBEe seven cities were ] m ade tO form one complex or unit. The whole valley is furthermore traversed by numerous canals which were laid out SO that each of them ran through or by city; each city contains one large temple and one common crematory m which the bodies of the dead were burned; in each complex or unit there are SIX cities which are all alike, while the seventh possesses a much larger temple.
 l. IS believed thBs this repetition of the number seven has 6 religious mean ing. the more SO, as the tribe Of Tunis who now inbEbit that region manifest similar tendency m theIr religion. The Iunis have ,iI deitics, iu. these 5ix form ID themselves the seventh, regarded as chief or supreme deity, md itis therefore reasonable to suppose that the inhabI- tBnis built smaller temple ID each of sbe six cries snd a large one in the seventh for tueir sUpre deity.
 The cities contained each space for sbou, one thousand inhabitants and We mAy calculate that in tbis valley alone there DO less than two hundred thou saud souls while their probable decend- ants, the Zlnis, have been reduced to about fifteen hundred. How It was possible that this race sLou.d have been reduced tO such small numbers cannot be kn, VII 0: present with any degree of certainty; i-ter On, whca tue ruins will have been eXDlOred with care ;his riddle will probably be solved to- Reiher with many others. IL is quite possible that the empire of the seven cities re; with l's almost complete de- struc;ion ID like manner ss Her ulanum and Pomp-Ii, neEr Naples, for, according to existing reports, the covering of the ruins as far a- pierced consists of vul- canic ashes and lava.
 The most astonishing circumstance of these discoveries lS, that according tO the statements Of the GeclogIsis this catastrophe Of such I, Wss) must have occurred about six thousand years ago and certain strOng indications, geologic and eihologic, go to prove that tte pre- historic people were at their best during |, period not less thsn ten thousapd years previous to our time. The differ | ent utensils, instruments, drawings and | statuary excavHted SO far show conclu- | sively, that if the geological estimates | are correct, the Indians Of the valley de | Los Muertos. had attained 0 very hisb | degrPe of civilization 10000 years ago | and it may therefore be imagined with | what feverish excitement our savsnts are | awaiting further developments.
 Messrs, Adolph BsDdelIer and Sylves- | ter Baxter. who have achieved a great | regulations as experts in antiquities are | nov # the ruins In order tO make dili | gent resesches and we will soon be | further enlightened upon these recently | discovered world of wonders.
 There cAD be DO doubt that this dis covery will awaken sn unusual interest m the whole scientific world. the more 90 if We Call to mind that more than once the theory has been advanced that tho cradle of the human race stood upon the Western continent. If the fact can te established that there lived ID Amencs ten thousand years ago race thst hso already then attained a high degree of cIvilizstI D, the above theory will un questioDab.y gain much ground, and we might then call America the OLD Europe, Asia and Africa the NEW world.