The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-14
Indy SPOTS
RUINED CITIES
FROM. PLANE
Five Days of Flying Does
Work That Would Have
Required Years.
MAYAN ROADS SIGHTED
Central American JungleS
Give Up Secrets to
Air Group.

BIZ Science Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.-In five
days of flying over unmapped areas
Of Mexico, Guatemala and BRUSH
Honduras, Colonel and Mrs. Charles
Lindbergh and Carnegie Institution
of Washington scientists have car
ried on archaeological reconnaissance
that. if it could be done on the
ground, would require eight years
Of mule-back travel.
Using large hydroplane in which
Colonel Lindbergh had been plo-
neering the new international routes
of the Pan-American Always, many
miles of bush and dense jungle were
searched from the air for signs OF
ruins of Maya cities, hitherto IN
known to science.
Five discoveries Of new Maya
ruins rewarded the exploring parties
aboard the Lindbergh plane. FIVE
white columns of crumbling Maya
masonry we're sighted near I1cal,
Guatemala, on Tuesdays flight into
the UNEMPLOYED area near Uaxactum,
the earliest of Maya cities and one
that Carnegie institution archie
ologists have studied extensively.
New Ruins Found
This was the first finding of ruins
that seemed 10 be previously un-
charted and undiscovered. While
the flights of sunday and Monday
from Belize, British Honduras, to
Merida, Yucatan, and return, dem
onstrated the usefulness of the air
plane for exploring such country,
no 'lost" ruins we're reported seen
OH those days.
Four unknown Maya cities and
evidence of a great stone highway
we're sighted during Wednesday S
fight from Belize to Cozumel lSiano'
off the Yucatan coast. The frst
min was located only one hours
fvinp time north of Belize, When
a triangular group Of MOUNDS was
seen in the virgin jungle, pracUlcalIy
inaccessible by land.
Ten minutes of flying revealed tf1e
second ruin, seen by Mrs. Glndoerg
as "bit of white wall glistenlng
above the deep green brush" Dr.
Az Kidder, head of the Carnegie
institutions archaeological researches:
thought it probable that both Oh
these ruins might belong to the same
ancient Maya city.
Pyramid Is Sighted
The largest Of the ruins seen on
Wednesdays flight were located
thirty miles north of the inland
town of Santa Cruz and consisted OF
crunnbling temple pyramid, sixty
IN seventy feet high, OF perfect
MAYA type. Three-quarters OF an
bo,ir earlier, sIoped hills, from tne
highest of which masonry showed,
indicated another ancient seat OF
Maya habitation.
The reports of the fight radloed
from the airplane directly to the
Pan-American International airport
at Miami. Fla, and then relayed by
land wire to Science Service, also IN
Dictated that on Wednesday, While
raising over traCkleSs bush in Quln-
tana Roo province, a portion OF
great stone highway stretching for a
thousand feet was seen.
On Thursdays fight near the ex-
oIored ruined city of Coba, the arch
Biological observers were unable to
And any trace of such stone high
ways in that vicinity.
Landings made on inland lakes
and along the coat during the flights
demonstrated how the a1rplane
could be used in middle America to
transport Psychologists over dis
tances that would require many
DAYS of difficult land travel.