Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-21
MONGOL REMAINS
FOUND IN MEXICO
9Near Capital Savants Uncover
Civilizations Antedating by
Ages That of the Aztecs.

LONDON-A sensation has beef
created in British scientific circles b,
advices received from Sir Martin Con
way. Professor William Niven anC
Senior Ramon Mena. of the discovery
of absolute Monaghan remains onl,
couple of hours walk from the City
of Mexico, thereby confirming the
| hypothesis that has long been hello
that the most ancient. civilization oil
Mexico and Peru preceding that of the
Toltecs and Aztecs was of Mongoiar
origin.
Close to and partly beneath the ruins
of the ancient city of Teaihuacan
about nineteen miles northeast of the
City of Mexico, the scientists uncov-
cred the still more ancient city OF
Otumbia, which f1ourished with a
wondrous civilization centuries before
the Aztecs or Toltecs rose to power,
possibly even before Babylon and
western Asia.
Dust of Twenty Centuries.
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 centur-
les. This soon brought into view
many evidences of a vast and popu-
lous city of a very high order of civil
llzation. Chief among these was a
great pyramid. 1t is 700 feet square
or ha fa f-
high. while many of the giant blocks
of stone in it's massive walls must
have required extraordinary engi-
neering skill to handle. This pyramid
also has it's riddle. for the axis of the
main gallery is coincidental with the
magnetic meridian.
Near the pyramid was found an
other remarkable building called the
Casa -Pintada, or painted house. On
the ground floor are six rooms with
smoothly polished floors of white
cement. The walls, which are COM
posed of stone, are thickest at the
base and slope slightly upward They
are also of plaster, which is painted
Indian red. On these walls are paint
ings representing human beings in
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The colors used in the paintings are
green. red, pink and orange brown.
The workmanship is of high order,
the figures being boldly drawn and
carefully colored.
Third Civilization.
Then came the greatest discovery
of all While excavating near the
base of the great pyramid Professor
Nevin unearthed the remains of yet
a third civilization 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
tomb of the lowest city, whose age
so far defes calculation, Professor
Niven found the clay image of a
Chinaman, with oblique eye Sits,
padded coat, flowing trousers and
slippers. Only the queue was lacking
to make a complete portrait of a
mandarin of the recently defunct
Chinese empire 1t should be remem-
bered, however, that the Chinese did
had been conquered by the Tartar
nOTueS from lHe nor III.
The image is about seven inches in
length, and where the arms are
broken the edges of the clay show
red. and friable in the centre. The
outer surface of the clay. however, is
of granite hardness, and it is only
with the greatest difficulty that it can
be Clipped with a hammer. In the
ears are huge rings, and on the head
is a skull cap with a small button in
the centre, 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 frog and button, and on the
breast is a circular 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 Pro-
lessor Niven, was not made by the
Aztecs. 1t is much older, and proves
that the ancient peoples of Mexico
were familiar with the Mongol type.
1t was found in a tomb or bedcham-
Der beneath the ruins of two other
ancient civilizations, thirty feet and
three inches below the surface. The
room, which was thirty feet square,
and built OF concrete walls, was prob
ably a tomb.
"On a raised cement platform in
the centre lay the skull and bones of
a man of not more than five feet in
height. His arms were very long,
reaching almost to the knees, while
his skull was of a decidedly Mongol
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string of jade beads-another link in
the Chinese theory, for real jade has
never been found in Mexico in the
natural state.
Beside the skeleton was a string of
597 pieces of she'll With this money
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
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