MEXICAN PYRAMIDS

Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 3

MEXICAN PYRAMIDS

A nil''-MAYAN CITY. The discovery is reported of a pro-Mayan city within tlltccu miles of Gonktan, in tie t- tate of Chiapas, and richer and more extensive Uian another ancient city also found .econtly by the International Scientific 14xploration Kxpedition, which left Mexico City for the sont..ern country six weeks ago. The newly-found oiiy has a dozen or more grand pyramids, faced with large blocks of cut stone, carefully fitted. On several of (he pyramids wore tall buildings, apparently temples and palaces. The city gives evidence of having been a groat religious centre, for wide paved streets lead through I,he centre to Uie central plaza, upon which focc most of the pyramids and truncated elevations crowned with official buildings. Near the ruins are many smaller mounds, which undoubtedly formed the bases of stone buildings. Sculptured pillars similar to the early Mayan period, but more primitive, apparently indicate that the city flourished previous to the earliest known Mayan civilisation of Northern Guatemala and the famous Palenque region of Mexico. The natives report a stone highway connecting the ruin with the city reported two weeks ago hidden in a tropical jungle. Other roads were reported crossing, t'-o’ chstrick conc-rndnig the ruined cities with the unexplored, unmorked arohreological map of i) . ihc cxpcdiiion purposes to follow the exploration of these ancient centres of '-van or pre-Mayan culture, which take Mexican c'vilisation hundreds of years back in the Christian era.