LOST CITY FOUND.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3334, 16 August 1926, Page 2

LOST CITY FOUND.

Magnificent ruins of a lost city which was built by the forgotten ancestors of the present Zapoeto Indians have been disvoyered near Tonala, in the Mexican State of Chiapas, by the -Mexican Government archaeological expedition..

The city rivals in splendor the Maya city of Chicken Itza. now being oxenrated by the Carnegie Foundation in Yucatan, and shows evidences of a civilisation of the highest type. The ruins so far discovered coyer more than sixty acres, and cons'st of

‘■"no buildings' with temples containing monoliths and rare, carved figures symbolising ideas long since forgotten Tim larger structures are built round wide plazas or platforms. All the buildings arc constructed of granite blocks with a number of beautiful carved altars. Tbo monuments on the plazas resemble similar finds in other parts of Central America, hjn J members of tbo expedition arc unable to decipher the meaning of the carvings, which will he sent to Mexico City,

Careful study of the Mexico C : ty records shows that no knowledge exists of any ancient city occupying the site of the discovery.

The present degenerate Indians o r Central America, and Mexico are known ’•I b<> ibe descendants of races wlm were., highly- civilised. They lived in cities.• rivalling in architecture the finest modern towns, but for reas'im unknown the whole fabric of their civilisation disappeared. Expeditions are now finding their cities buried beneath hundreds of years of jungle growth.