Lindbergh's Camera Discovers Lost Maya Cities.—Completing an aerial journey of 9,000 miles, during which he blazed a West Indies-South America air mail route, explored hitherto uncharted territory and discovered the ruins of ancient Maya cities, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, accompanied by his bride and Dr. A. V. Kidder, chief of the Carnegie Institution’s archaeological department recently returned to the United States after a most successful trip. The crumbling walls of a majestic Maya temple pyramid, estimated to be sixty to seventy feet in height, was the fourth ancient city found by Colonel Lindbergh Dr. A. V. Kidder said that a pyramid marked the central temple about which each city was built, the larger piles being from 200 to 250 feet high, and the smaller ones 100 feet high. Jungle growth made it impossible to judge from the air the size of the ancient cities. The photograph at right, gives a general view of the great Mayas monoliths, monuments in the thick jungle of Luca tan after a clearing. Left.-A mysterious monolith sphinx, relic of vanished civilisation, bidden by thick tropical vegetation of the type discovered by Colonel Lindbergh. -Underwood and Underwood.

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 52, 25 November 1929, Page 9

Lindbergh's Camera Discovers Lost Maya Cities.—Completing an aerial journey of 9,000 miles, during which he blazed a West Indies-South America air mail route, explored hitherto uncharted territory and discovered the ruins of ancient Maya cities, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, accompanied by his bride and Dr. A. V. Kidder, chief of the Carnegie Institution’s archaeological department recently returned to the United States after a most successful trip. The crumbling walls of a majestic Maya temple pyramid, estimated to be sixty to seventy feet in height, was the fourth ancient city found by Colonel Lindbergh Dr. A. V. Kidder said that a pyramid marked the central temple about which each city was built, the larger piles being from 200 to 250 feet high, and the smaller ones 100 feet high. Jungle growth made it impossible to judge from the air the size of the ancient cities. The photograph at right, gives a general view of the great Mayas monoliths, monuments in the thick jungle of Luca tan after a clearing. Left.-A mysterious monolith sphinx, relic of vanished civilisation, bidden by thick tropical vegetation of the type discovered by Colonel Lindbergh. -Underwood and Underwood.