The courier-index., 1920-04-02
TRACE MEXICAN
 RACE TO CHINA
Recent Discoveries Bear Out Tradition That Chinese Once
 Peopled Country.
MAY SOLVE ANCIENT PUZZLE
hieroaIyphics Found on Foundation Stones of Pyramids at San Juan Teotihuacan Indicate Primitive
 Migration From Orient

Mexico City.-Hieroglyphics recent of the pyramids of San Juan Teoti- huacan. 2 miles northeast of Mexico City. may solve the problem which has perplexed historians and archeoIogists for centuries as to the true origin of the Mexican nation. These strange carvings are said by some authorities to be Chinese. thus tending to bear out the old tradition that in the dim past wandering tribes from China crossed to the new continent, settled within the present boundaries of Mex ic0 9nd became the progenitors of the race which now dominates this republic.
 So interesting are the recent discov- cries that the bureau of anthropology has been instructed to conduct a vigor- ous research, and in this connection Fong Tsiang Kuang, charge d'affaires of the Chinese legation in Mexico. vis- iteh the pyramids and stated that the hieroglyphics were similar in many re- spects to certain symbols now in use by the Chinese. He declared the words ''sun.r "city'' and "eye' were clearly depicted. Mexican anthropologists who have interested themselves in the dis covery have declined to pass final judg- ment until further excavations are made and more evidence obtained.
 Pyramids Primitive Marks.
 The pyramids of San Juan Teotihua- can as well as those in Cholula, in the state of Puebla. are among the oldest marks of primitive habitatiOn to be found in the republic. They stand as colossal monuments to peoples whose history was as obscure to the conquer ing Span:ards in the sixteenth century as to present-day historians. Because of their general construction. some au- thorities believe they are the handi- work of the Egyptians, who in some mysterious manner crossed the seas and denoted their places of permanent habitation with these stone and cement structures. which are even larger than the most famous pyramids of Egypt.
 The little village of San Juan Teoti- huacan, which in the Aztec language means "City of the Gods" was in the early days of Aztec history the scene of extraordinary religious ceremonies. The two pyramids, one dedicated to the sun, the other to the moon, are known to have been the tombs in which hundreds of tribal dignitaries were buried, and excavators have exhuned wrought stone containing human bones, obsidian knives, terra-cotta heads with broad faces and flat noses, fragments of rare pottery and great numbers of arrowheads.
 Find Mask of Monarch.
 One of the most recent and most valuable discoveries was a jadeite mask of some past monarch with the brow covered with the diadem known to early Mexican history. The pyramid to the sun measures 761 by 721 feet at the base and is 216 feet high; the one to the moon is 511 by 426 feet at the base and is 151 feet high. They both contain numerous chambers. and their several stories are complete temples in themselves. but connected by winding stairs.
 The inscriptions having Chinese char acteristics were discovered through excavating in the ruins of what has generally been known as La Claud- adela (The CitadeD, but which, ac- cording to recent reports of investiga- tors, are what is left of pyramid larger and perhaps older than the two pyramids of the san and the moon.