MEXICAN BOY SCOUTS
FIND HIDDEN CITY?
MEXICO CITY, Sept, 3. The Department of Education announced to-day that Boy Scouts had discovered a new archaeological zone in the wilds of the State, of Guerrero. Among the figures discovered is a large , stone sphinx hearing a marked resemblance to that in Egypt. Government .archaeologists are leaving forthwith to study the zone, which, according to the discoverers’ preliminary, reports, includes an entire buried city. A number , of hills in the zone are believed to cover pyraiiiids. Ou the summit of one there is a huge globular stone covered with a kind of hieroglyphics, Tho departmeiit communique said that there was no known record of the zone, which it was believed had never been seen beforo by a white man.. The discoverers brought photographs of the. sphinx and other relics with them as proof of their find. , r t
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 10
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