The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-18

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the world appears TO be interested in Tut-Ankh
Amen's tomb. Moreover, these be great days for
the Psychologists. Diggers are hard at work pref
ty much over all the earth. And many curious
things do their shovels turn up. And every now
and then chance turns up something ancient that
sets the diggers busy on a new quest. It's an unin-
teresting newspaper these days that does not con-
tain some kind of a "Tut story from some un-
known or forgotten place Of earth. Just read this
list of archaeological activities, casually made from
recent news dispatches:
The third Asiatic expedition Of the American
Museum of Natural History, led by Roy Chapman
Andrews, has discovered in the Cobb desert Of
Mongolia proof that Asia is the "Mother of Con-
tinents' and the Grade If Life on this globe. 1t
Is still searching for fossilized remains OF the
missing Link" in the evolution of mankind-the
creature between monkey and man.
The University Of Pennsylvania Is carrying on
work In four places in Egypt and Palestine
Memphis, Thebes, Beisan and Ur. Beisan was
hoary with age when an Egyptian Pharaoh Of 1000
B. c. received tribute from 1t.
A Chicago Field museum expedition, headed by
Prof. Elmer S. Riggs, has left Rio GallegOs, In
southern Argentina, for a %fve-year exploration into
the interior Of mysterious Patagonia In search Of
fossils Of the tertiary age. Incidentally the Chi.
cagoans hope TO find traces Of the two lost
cities, the CITY Of the Caesars" and the "Enchant-
ed City" which are famous in the legendary his
tory of this faroff land. Also they would like to
meet some of the fanciful prehistoric monsters
which every so often are reported. DR.. J. G Wolfe,
curator of the Regional museum at Rio Gallegos,
says he has seen ruins 5000 or 1000 years old.
1t was DR.. Wolfe who reported the finding of a
fossil skull in sandstone rock Of tertiary forma-
tion-and therefore something like 100000 years
old.
Between 30 and 60 cases of archaeological treas
ure, described by Thomas Hastings, the architect.
as "the most magnificent material that ever has
come out Of Asia Minor" have been received by
the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. These materials
come from SardiS, ancient capital Of Croesus, and
other Lydian kings. 1t was here that 30 gold coins
Of CrOesus, the earliest gold coinage Of the world.
were found by American eXcavators last spring.
Football, baseball, bowling, dice and jacks had
their origin in Lydia, according TO classical ac-
counts. The oldest objects found may be relics
Of tie Hittites, according to DR.. Butler, who are
known to have been in this region rs early as 5000
years before Christ.
The Russian explorer, Koslof, has started from
Moscow under soviet auspices TO complete his re-
searches in the ancient capital of Monaghan civil.
zation, KharakhOto, which has been for more than
a thousand years In the sands of the Central
Asian desert. lie says 1t was q mighty city whose
civilization far Outstripped that Of pompeii and
Herculaneum.
Russian expedition under Prof. Bartsenko has
returned TO Petrograd from the Kola peninsula OF
Lapland, where il is reputed TO have found re-
mains Ola civilization much older than the Egyp-
tiars," with pyramid-shaped tombs and everything
A mission composed of some Of England's ablest
explorers, scientists, missionaries and ethnologists
sool will leave London for the city Of Lhasa. which
Is hurled behind the worlds greatest rampant OF
MOUNTAINS, the Himalayas. between India and
Chiaa. The mission will proceed under the aus
picts OF the International Buddhist union, repre-
senting all schools Of Buddhism. including the Bud
dhist Society of the United States.
The excavation now being carried on In the great
four-story stone building in which a whole city
once lived at Aztec, New Mexico. brOught. to light
the first specimen of the ladders used by the Pueb-
los Of about 900 A. D., who entered the gigantic
building by ladders and pulled the ladders In after