The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-10-12
M0N0LITH PROBLEMS
MYSTERY OF THESE STRANGE STONE
MONUMENTS OF THE PAST.

Theory That All of Them, Those ON
the American Continent Ms Well as
Those In the Enst. Were BUILT by
the Ancient Phocnicians
Among the greatest mysteries in the
mystery of the past human history ON
earth the monoliths that stand In varI-
GUS parts of the globe have always
been chief.
These strange stone monuments, gen
orally rude, with hardly any sculpture,
but wonderfully large i'll : q, are scat-
tered everywhere. The most famous
of them are the cromlechs, such us
those in Stonehrngc. in England 9th
ers are found In the western part of
France, in the northern part of Ger
many as far as the Oder river, in Den.
mark and in Sweden.
Northern Africa, Madagascar and
Asia. from Mount Sinai and the eau
casus To India, all have some here and
there
Lately they have been discovered
even In Siberia There are several
places in Japan where such stones
stand
Others have been found In North and
South America. Among the most Won
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 MS TO what these stones
meant was not the only plpAle. The
greatest puzzle was how primitive PEG
pie without knowledge of engineering
and without known appliances, could
have moved and erected such giant
blocks, some OF which weigh rs much
as 2oo tons. In many districts where
the great memorials stand there are
no stones of such size To be found III
the earth. Consequently they must
have been transported from places long
distances away.
For many generations ever since
men have spent any time In thinking
over these matters scientists hive
puzzled their heads over the monoliths
In vain Whether they classcd them ms
all being the same or whether they
divided them into differe classes
they remained the same riddle.
In more recent yenrs, however, there
has been systematic study Of NIL the
monolith memorials of the world, and
rs II result novel theory Inns been
advanced
1t Is that one rnCe-thnt of tho
phorniCiuns erected all these monu-
ments.
OF course If this is correct 1t mems
that history viii hive to he revised
for II would show that the Ihocnicinns
once knew all about the whole globe
and TINT they had visited America and
Asia long before modern days
The first thing that led To the AS
rumptiUn t!dt the rhoculcinns had
raised the monuments WAS the obser
sation of NJ LcVistre, IL French ar.
chaeolosist, that almost all the mono
liths were To Ice found near the mouths
of great rivers or nlong their courses
This pointed to n people that used
ships.
Now, the CClts were never strong on
the water. Their boats were primitive
being mostly of wickerwork covered
with hides, and they We're unable To
move any distance from land In these
clumsy and unscaworthy contrivances.
Consequently, when the question
a II.
navigation in that early time when
these monuments We're pi1 up, the
answer naturally came I'll the only
race known TO be Il race o. s1llors and
merchants then WAS the ...ee of the
Phoenicians.
And If they were the fhoenicinns
how did they come TO reach america
They had colonies on the islands of
the western Mediterranean and even
In the islands of the Atlantic ocean,
as history proves. 1t is moi hard TO
imagine that they may hive found
their way to America. Some archne
ologists are even willing to believe
the lost Atlantis, that legendary con
tinent that IN now sunken somewhere
In the Atlantic ocean, II II ever ex-
listed.
At any rate, the theory that the
phoenicians were the erectors of the
monoliths Of the world To commence
rate discoveries or for religious pur-
poses still later on gained strength
through the discovery of II great up
right stone near the river Loire which
has Phocnlcinn words engraved deeply
on It, Translated, these words say.
''On this spot was slain our brave com
rude"
In san Luis, in Bolivia, Is one Of
these stones, which has on 1t the en-
craving Of a foot printed and snake
with its head raised. The footprint IL
well known Phoenlcian symbol of
death and Is found on many stones
that cover ancient Phoenicinn burial
sites. And the snake with head raised
is another acknowledged Phoenician
emblem. Exactly the same symbols ns
those on the South American stone
have been found on n stone In central
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