Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-06-04
Recent Discoveries.

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1t was only the other day, In a rock.
hewn tomb down In Southern Mexico,
that there was found bronze ana
hammered iron sword, bearing ON Ito
blade and haudlG-in nCh inlaying OF
silvef-ChaTaCtefa Of record and repre-.
sentati1ns OF life dislinciivDly Assytiau
and Grecian. Tue roughly hammered
iron blade showed the cru1ity " the
early days Of this iron age, but tho ~.
uuIsito inlayiug OF silver ON the bronze
bore testimony 20 the cunning VI the
silvertmithH who wrought tho weapon
To all appearances, and according o.
the inscriptions. 20 was q royal arm, TOT
on la ample his II tore in horizontal
lines the crowned head Of Its wcnrut,
white below, IN CuniiOfm characters
on tho blade, were apparently the title
and name OF the sovereign. Tue
sword and scabbgrd weighed twelve
pounds, Ut which tue sword alone fop.
resented twJ-lhirds " the total. hOw
n ChHldUgn sword could nnu itH way
into the tomb Ia Mexico Ia more than
anyone has been nble u conjecture.
All over central auu stutuorn Next
90 there nru rclirs OF a departed race
the Aztec. Antiqu ltiaus have en-
dravOtrd 10 read their history IN the
stones VI Tula, which was the uld
Tollec capital, now a plsce Of ruins.
Old IuiA Is row uvtrgrIwn ana mali
hidden from rigll. san Juan ToOu.
hu can IL also famous for IT. two great
tafthcu ryumiis, which stand out on
the plain % hall mile apart. One Of
them was dedicated 10 the sun, the
other 10 the moon. The earth for
miles AfUuud is nlltd with small
images Csritaa 80 insUmuch that II
seems ~ II these ancient people spent
mos. Of their time IN making them.
a marvellous story IL tlat which
comes from ArElnn, wueTu few
months ago some pfospuct1ts In the
Bradshaw mountains came upon
clifl.iwcl'ets' village In onp Of the
most lnaCcustiblB canyons u that
TaugC-the largest village u the kind
ever discovered. Several OF the houses
were explored anu large quantities OF
ugtury aud some instruments. evl.
IDENTIFY used Tor cultivntiug the
,Oil, were found. | q Ono the sKstoton
Of u man not over 1 feet S inches In
height was discovered. The canyon
NJ AllH IlAAN - iAAl - lAAllN NlAN hhN
shows evidence OF having been cult
waited. II this theory proves to be- true
Il will throw more light on the habits
Of this liItle.knOwu people. 20 iar W.
known no other evidence has over been
discovered Oi cNl-iwellefs having
cultivated the soil.
An Austrian student, Herr Low,
who has been travelling Ia Central
America, has recently Oblalucd anu
forwarded to the Imperial museum ia
Vienna twelve large stone Stats bear.
ing footprints In thO sjlid rock. The
rlaOs were taken from the quarry over
Lake MauaRun, Ia the territory Of
Nicaragua. These footprints had been
uycTlad by eleven different layers "
stone, extending to n depth " four
melrrs, and Indicating au antiquity for
our race quite trtuBcUudlug all cOuIrc.
tuTUs hilneitO huzaIded. They are
about thfoC.quatteTs OF meter square
and arc sunk into the stone 10 the
| depth VI from eight 90 ten CenlimettTs.
/ The footprints are said 10 be very CON
gpiCuouu and seem 20 be those Of three
distinct pefs0ns, one Of whom was "a
child. To what race or what age they
belong no one yet has ventureI ~
| guess.
Curious and puzzilng rs anything
brought TO light Ia recent years was
some ancient hhndiwotk found not
| long ago In making excavations for
canal connecting lakes Euslis anu
| D1u, IN southern Florida. The HTst
excavations revealed the existence OF
a clearly defined wall lying In n line
| tending toward the southwest from
where II was fret struck. The wall
was composed OF n dutk.btOwn sand
stone, very much crumbled In places,
but more distinct, more clearly de.
fined aud the stone more solid az the
| digging Increased IN depth. The wall
was evidently the eastern side Of an
ancient home or fertilization, This
| sand mound was dug Toto only few
| Inches, but enough was discovered to
warrant the belief that here ON ths north
western shore OF LAKE Dora IL sub.
mUrReda city OF town or fertilization
| older by centuries than anything " ct dis
| covered in this portion Of Florida.
Small curiOusiy shaped blocks ofsand-
tlUuc, some OF them showing traces OF
ire, pieces Of pottery anu utensils
| made ui notified fiat were thrown out
| by ,hc mun while wUrilug waist deep
Ia water. Ole spear head VI notified
! mint, hyu anu a hall inches long by
| ono ana a quarter inches wide, nicely
tnlshoi, was taken from tue top Of lho
sand mound ami about Tour feet below
tho water Lowell OF the lake.
But in no part o! this county, per.
hgps, have 10 many valuable "aud -
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