The New York herald., 1922-06-04
THE most mysterious monument In
the world is to be brought to
Philadelphia for the great Exposi-

the world is to be brought to
Philadelphia for the great EXPOSE
ton I'm 1926. 1t is the great Mayan
Sphinx of Quirigua, Guatemala which
has defied the curious skill of the archa
ologists to decipher, yet has a great story
to tell. It's removal to Philadelphia will
be huge engineering endeavor, for it
weighs more than eight tons, and will
have to be transported across the jungle
and carried a considerable distance by
train before it reaches its ship 1t stands
to-day amid the great ruins of an ancient
civilization, far in the interior of Guate-
mala, near what was once great Mayan
Temple. 1t is one massive block of sand
stone and will have to be taken five miles
on sledges to the nearest railway. A
special car will have to be constructed to
carry it to the port of shipment.
When it does reach the United States it
is expected that an intensive study of the
figures upon 1t and the inscriptions, so
carefully cut, will lead to their decipher-
ing, so that we may at last learn pre-
cisely who built this great sphinx and
when it was erected and perhaps find in
it the solution of the mystery as to the
origin of the prehistoric races in America.
A study of this and other Mayan monu-
ments has led number of scientists to
the conclusion that it is more than prob
able that in these monuments there is
proof that the Egyptians discovered
America thousands Of years before CO.
lumbus, and that there was an extensive
settlement of ancient Egyptians in all of
what is now Central America and Mexico,
are now found
When the Spaniards reached the main
land they could not fail to be struck by
these great stone images and the temples
still used by the upper class of their day.
They noted too, according to all accounts,
that there was superior and an inferior
class, and that they were not of the same
race at all. In fact the remains which
have come down to us tend to prove that
the ruling race was possessed of high
mentality and broad culture, as was evil
denced by their monuments. The re-
scmblance of some of the letters used in
their inscriptions to the Egyptian hero
glyphs has been noted and one or more
OF the scientists who have busted them
selves with these monuments have
claimed that they found as many 4
as dozen words written as the q
Egyptians wrote them and with
the same significance.
1t is claimed that the modern
descendants Of the Mayans are
different in culture and the shapes -
Of their heads from the other In
dians and that hundreds of words
in their language resemble words
in the Egyptian.
That this is by no means impossible is
borne out by the fact that it is well known
that the Egyptians sailed as far as Glib
raltar and even sailed through the Straits
into the Atlantic Ocean. 1t is no new
theory that the ost Atlantis, great con-
tinent, well known to all of the ancient
peoples, and especially to the Greeks and
Egyptians, lay far out in the Atlantic
Ocean and was really halfway house or
stopping place between Europe and
America.
When the Egyptian ships had sailed as
far as Atlantis there was every reason for
some of their most enterprising adventur-
ers to sail still further to the westward,
and there they would come to Central
America, as they apparently did. 1t has
been pointed out that between July and
September there is a steady trade wind
and current in the direction of the West
Indies from the Canary Islands, and IL
the Egyptian ships struck this current at
the right time of the year it did not re-
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