Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-06-13
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RINSE PRIORITY QUESTION
Discovery of MOnoliths In Western
Hemisphere Give Rise to
Js&I Discussion.

aAmonE the greatest mysteries OF
3 n0man history on earth. the mono
itths that stand II, various parts
s OF the globe have always been chief.
These strange stone monuments
generally rude, with hardly any
I sculpture. but wonderfully large in
4 size. are scattered everywhere. The
most famous OF them are the erom-
lechs. such as the StonchenSe in
England Others are found in the
western part OF France. in the north
i Ssrn part of Germany as far as tn.
n Sweden. Northern Africa. MadaEas-
car and Asia. from Mount Sinai and
the Caucasus TO India, all have some
here and there.
They have been discovered even in
in Japan where such stones stand.
Others have been found in North
4 and South America. Among the
most wonderful and mysterious OF
that have been found on lonely East
or Island in the Pacific Ocean.
Puzzle ns 10 Erection.
The mystery as TO what these
stones meant was not the only puz-
primitive people, without knowledge
OF engineering and without known
appliances, could have moved and
7 erected such giant blocks. some of
NbiSn "Si-H as -DN NtUS.
In many districts where the great
memorials stand there are no stones
of such size to be found in the earth.
Consequently they must have been
transported from places long dis
tanccS away.
For, many generations. ever since
men have spent any time III think
ing over these matters, scientists
have puzzled their heads over the
monoliths in vain. Whether they
classcd them as all being the same
or whether they divided them into
dinerent classes, they remained the
same riddle.
1t is now believed that one race
that of the rhocnicians-ercctcd all
these monuments. OF course. If
this is correct, 1t would show that
the Phoenicians once knew all about
The whole globe and thai they
visited America and Asia long be-
fore modern days.
Evidently Maritime in Origin.
The first thing that lead to the as
sumption that the Phocnicians had
raised the monuments was ~, OBJ
archaeologist. that. almost all the
monoliths were 10 be found near the
mouths of great rivers or along their
primitive, being made mostly of
wickerwork, covered with hides, and
they were unable TO move any dis
unseaworthy contrivances. Consc-
Quently, when the question arose as
to what race was advanced in navi-
CATION in that early time when those
monuments were put UP. the answer
naturally came that the only race
known to be race of sailors and
merchants then was the race OF
Phoenicians. And IL they were the
Phoenicians how did they come 10
reach America? They had colonies on
the Islands OF the Western Mcditer-
ranean. and even in the islands of
the Atlantic Ocean, as history proves
1t is not hard TO imagine that they
may have found their way to Amer
lea
Some arcnaelogists are even willing
to believe that they reached America
by way OF the lost Atlantis, that lc-
gendary continent that is now sunk
On somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean
" II ever existed. At all events at
San Luis, in Bolivia. is q stone which
has on IL the engraving OF a FOOTPRINT
and n snake with its head raised. The
footprint is a wellknown symbol OF
death, and is found on many stones
that cover ancient Phoenic!an burial
sites And the snake with head
raised is another acknowledged Phoc-
nician emblem. If the monument in
Bolivia was erected by early natives
OF that country, how comes il that
they used Phoanic!an symbols