Intermountain Jewish news., 1925-12-24
THE JEWISH REALM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

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TO this chapter Of the story 1.
signed % L.,' os well ns TO all Of the
other parts or crosses. the %. H. being
not his initials, but rather an insignia
OF rank.
The investigation and cxcavating Is
only in the embryo stage. and Is TO bc
carried on To completion in the future
however, much definite information has
been brought to light that establishes
these relies as being several hundred
years pre- Columbian.
&c. j. Sarle, Ph. d.. one of the emil
nent geolcsists Of the Southwest. who
has spent much time during the last
year In investigating this find, is OF the
belief that the articles are not only
genuine but are as old as the dates
would Indicate. He has established this
belief through the location at their re-
spcctive depths, of the numerous In
dian cultures. the oldest being that Of
the Ilohokums, or the great unknown
tribe cf Indians that inhabited the
Southwest in prehistoric times. The
veneer of the Hohokum culture Is II
considerable distance above the level at
which these relics are being excavated
Dean Byron Cummings. Curator of
the State Museum, archeologist. and u
member OF the faculty of the Univcr-
slty Of Arizona. who has also invcsti-
gated this problem, Is convinced as to
the antiquity of The finds and as to the
articles being genuine. He establishes
the age of the relies through the Ro-
man script contained upon them, which
he states hns not been in common use
since the eighth century. and through
In this he is supported by Professor
Frank Fowler. who has translated all
Of the Latin inscriptions on the pieces
found to date.
Professor Charles r. Vorhies. cHto-
inooglst. who has also interested him
self in this investigation and has AS
sisted with thc Photographic record. is
firm in his belief that these relies are
not of historic times. are many hun
dred years old, that there has been no
burial of them. and there is no evil
dence of burial. hut that the articles
have been covered over to Il depth of
between five and six feet by II 'nntrrnl
building-up process, over a long period
of time.
Dean A. +. Douglass of the steward
Observatory and vice-prcsident of the
Historical and Archaeological Society
Of Arizona is firm In the belief OF the
antiquity and the genuineness of the
| finds. He has spent much time on the
Investigation. has taken II complete pho
togrnphic record. and has himself exca-
waited part of the relies.
"Dr. Neil Judd of the Smithsonian
Institution visited the excavation and
completely excavated two of the arti-
cles himself He stated that the arti-
cles were very old and that there was
absolutely no evidence OF disturbance
of the earth surrounding them He
reached this conclusion after chopping
these two pieces loose with "a miners
pick.
IAN of these men have either cxca-
vated some of the finds themselves or
hive been present when relics were cN-
cavated
''Thc time at which the story of
these crusaders relates their history
| definitely establishes the period during
which they inhabited America. and is
supported by the eighth century Latin
script that is used in the Inscriptions.
THE place from which they came has
been established by Laura Cclman
! Ostrander AS the Roman Empire, since
f, they call the unknown land Roman
Calnlrs. They were designated by her
MS Roman Jews because of the appear
ancc of the Hebrew script of the early
centuries upon the religious standards,
and because of the nature and signiii-
cancc of drawings and symbols appear
Ing upon them; also because of the
fact that the traders of the ROman
Empire during the first Christian cen
turtles We're the Jews.
''Ihe Investigation and excavation
has been carried on by Messrs Charles
+. Manner and Thomas w. Bent, With
the assistance of John $. Bent and the
support of the University of Arizonu,
the Tucson Chamber Of Commerce and
the city Of Tucson. All Of the phOtog-
raphy for publication is being done 10y
the irwin Studios OF Tucson, Ariz.
This Is AN announcement and should
he taken ns II conclusion, since future
excavation will no doubt bring TO light
much more evidence of startling and in
tcrcsting nnturc. and ms the new evil
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