The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15
MONOLITH PROBLEMS
MYSTERY OF THESE STRANGE STONE
MONUMENTS OF THE PAST.
A Theory That All Of Them, Those ON
the American Continent I'M Well as
Those In the Enst, Were Bnilt by
the Ancient IhOcuiciana,

earth the %nIOnOlithS that stand in vari-
u parts Of the globe have always,
been chief.
These strange stone monliil"ilri. gen
orally rude, with hardly any sci!I.,31rr.
but wonderfully large in s!zp. are st:,t-
tered everywhere. Tie Niuat ta:aoss
Of them are the cromicrl.,, @i!,ll rs
those in S%tonehenge, in England. 9th
ers are found in the western part of
France, in the northern part Of Ger
mark and in Sweden.
Northern Africa. madagascar and
Asia, from Mount Sinai and the Clu-
, caslls to India, all have some here and
there.
Lately they have been discovered
evcn in Siberia. There are several
places in Japan where such stones
| stand.
Others have been found in North and
South America. Among the most
derful and mysterious Of them all are
the vast, almost terrifying. stones,
rudcly sculpturcd, that have been
found on Easter island, in the Pacific
ocean.
The mystery as to What these stones
meant was not the only puzzle. The
greatest puzzle was how primitive peo-
pie, without knowledge OF engineering;
II without known appliances. could
have moved and erected such giant
blocks, some Of which weigh as much
as 2JO tons. In man, districts wi.v:c
the great memorials Stanl tllcI" are
no stones Of SuclI size to be found in
the earth. Consequently they must
have been transported from places Ions
distances away.
For many generation&-eycr since
men have spent any time in thinking
over these mattcr5-scientiits have
puzzled their heads over the m@onolitlls
in vain. Whether they classed them us
all being the same or whether they
divided them into different classes,
they remained the same riddle.
In more recent years. however, there
has bccn Il systematic study OF all the
monolitll memorials OF the world, and
as II result Il novel theory has been
advanced.
1t is that one race-tlAt OF the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS all these monu-
mcnts.
OF course if this is correct it means
that history will have to be revised,
for it would show that the pllocnicians
once knew all about the whole globe
aud that they had visited America and
Asia long before modern days.
The first thing that led to the as
sumption that the phocniciuns had
raised the monuments was the obser-
walton OF NJ. Levistrc. Il French ar
chacologist. that almost all the mono
liths were to be found near the mouths
Of great rivers or along their courses.
This pointed to Il people that used
ships.
Now, the CcIts were never strong on
the water. Their boats were primitive. !
being mostly of wickcrwork covered
with hides, and they were unable to
move any distance from land in these
and unseaworthy c~ontrivances.
Consequently. when the question
arose as to what race was advanced in
in that early time when
these monuments We're put up. the
naturally anne that the only
known to be Il race of sailors and
merchants then was the race Of the i
And if they were the IlornicianS
how did they come TO reach .Atnerica?
They had colonies on the islands Of
The western Mediterranean and wen
the islands of the Atlantic ocean,
Is history proves. 1t is not hard to
imagine that they may have found
heir way to Amerisa. Some arclae.
are even willing to believe
hat they reached America by way of
he lost Atlantis, that legendary CON
:inent that is now sunken somewhere
n the Atlantic ocean, il it ever ex-
sted.
At any rate, the theory that the
PhOeuichns were the erectOps of the
Of the world to commelnO.
ate discoveries Or for religious pur-
through the discovery Of Il great up
light tone nea the river Loire. which
las lh0enician words engraved deeply
II 1t. Translated, these words say.
On this spot was slain our brave CON-
ade."
In San Luis, in Bolivia, is one of
hese stones, which has on it the ell
Of a foot printed and q snake
With its head raised. The footprint Is
we'll known Phoenician symbol Of
and IL found Oil many stones
hat v ancient Phoentcian burial
ties. Aud the snake with head raised
J another acknowledged Phoenician
inblenl. Exactly the same symbols as
hose on the South American stone
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