The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-04
CITY Of 5000 B, C..
FOUND N MEXICO
Believed to Have Been Built
by Chinese-Sculptured
Images Unearthed.

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| Mexico, thereby confirming the n.y.
pothesis that has long been held that
the most ancient civilization of Next
co and Peru preceding that of the Toll
tees and the Aztecs was of Monaghan
origin.
Close to and partly beneath the
! ruins Of the ancient city of Tootihusc-
an. about nineteen miles northeast OF
the City OF Mexico. the scientists un-
covered the still moro ancient city of
Otumbia, which flourished with Il Won
drous civilization centuries before the
Aztecs or Toltecs rose to power, pos
sibly even before Babylon and Nineveh
swayed the destinies of western Asia.
With the financial assistance of the
Mexican government the expedition
began the removal of a siX-foot layer
OF earth, representing the dust and
detritus of more than twenty centu-
ries. This o brought into view
many evidences Of a vast and populous
city of a very high order of civiliza-
ton. Chief among these was a great
pyramid. 1t is 700 feet square at the
base and its apex Is 1877 feet high.
while many OF the giant blocks of
stone in its massive walls must have
required extraordinary engineering
skill to handle. This pyramid also has
its riddle, for the axis of the main gall
lery is coincidental With the magnetic
meridian.
Remarkable Work.
Near the pyramid was found anoth-
er remarkable building called the
"Casa-Pintada,' OF. painted house. On
the ground floor are six rooms. with
smoothly polished floors of white ce-
ment. The walls. which are composed
Of clay mixed with fragments of stone.
are thickest at the base. and slope
slightly upward. They are also smooth
ly finished with a thin coating of plas-
ter, which Is painted Indian red. On
these walls are paintings representing
human beings in elaborate garments
and head dresses. The colors used in
the paintings are green. red. pink and
orange brown. The workmanship Is
of a high order. the figures being
boldly drawn and carefully colored.
Then came the greatest discovery Of
all. While eNcavating near the base
of the great pyramid Prof. Niven un-
earthed the remains OF yet a third CIV
ilization beneath the ruins of ancient
Otumbia. making three great cities Of
lost and forgotten races, built one
above the other.
In what appears to have been a
tomb of the lowest city, Prof. Niven
found the clay image Of a Chinaman,
with oblique y Sits, padded coat,
flowing trousers, and slippers. Only
the queue was lacking to make a COM
plete portrait of a mandarin of the
recently defunct Chinese empire. 1t
should be remembered. however, that
the Chinese did not adopt the queue
until after they had been conquered
by the Tartar hordes from the north.
The image is about seven inches in
length, and where the arms are brok-
en- the edges Of the clay show red. and
friable in the center. The outer sur
face Of the clay, however, is of gram
lite hardness. and it is only with the
greatest difficulty that it can be chip
ped with a hammer. In the ears are
huge rings, and on the head is a skull
cap with a small button in the zen.
ter. precisely like that worn by the
modern mandarin. The coat. which is
loose and of the type still worn by the
older Chinese, Is fastened with a frog
and button. and on the breast is a cir
cular plate. evidently once covered
with a thin layer of beaten gold, but
worn bare by contact with the earth
for unknown centuries.
This Chinese image" writes Prof.
Niven. was not made by the Aztecs.
1t is much older. and proves that the
ancient people of Mexico were familiar
SO VAC AhoaA6OA ~ PC. IL was lOunQ
in a tomb or bedchamber beneath the
ruins of two other ancient civiliza-
tons, thirty feet and three inches be-
low the surface. The room, which
was thirty feet square, and built Of
concrete walls. was probably q tomb.
Q a raised cement platform in the
center lay the skull and bones of a
man Of not Tor than five feet in
height. His arms were very long,
reaching almost to the knees while his
skull was of a decidedly mongol type.
Around his neck had been a string of
jade beads-another link in the Chi.
nese theory, for real jade has never
been found in Mexico in the natural
state.
First Ever Found.
BESIDE the skeleton was a string of
597 pieces Of shell. With this none,
lay the greatest find of all-the little
Chinaman. 1t is the first Of the kind
ever found in Mexico. though mongol
types are found in sufficient numbers
among the American and Mexican In
dams to argue an Asiatic origin. Near
the platform was a flower vase, about
fifteen inches high, that had evidently
been filled with xochite, the sacred yell
low flower of all those ancient races Of
Mexico.
1T should be borne in mind that
this image was not a god, or on idol.
but an ornament-perhaps a portrait
done in clay by some prehistoric sculp-
tor.
THE age of the figure is dif,cult to
determine without further data. Cir
cumstances. however. warrant the
rough guess that about 5000 years ago
Chinese navigators cross the Pacific in
their primitive junks and discovered
America thousands Of years before
Columbus was born. Settling there,
they built a. city, and in n grave of
one of their number. many years after,
a clay image of the man was buried
with him.
This great city fell into ruins-
perhaps through conquest-but the
image lay safe. The ruins of this first
city were covered with earth and there
arose through the centuries another
splendid and mysterious city. This,
too. fell into ruins. and upon It was
raised a third metropolis Of some for
gotten race Of e At last the third
city crumbled into dust, but UNDER
meath them all the Chinaman's image
still lay safe and undisturbed until a
little group of s%earchers in the cause
Of science, in this wonderful twentieth
century of ours. have brought it TO
light, and perhaps through 1t we mag
now solve the enigma of the new
worlds beginning"