Scouts’ Find in Mexico
The Department of Education in Mexico, announced a few weeks ago, that boy scouts bad discovered u new archaeological zone in the wilds of the State of Guerrero. Among the figures discovered is a large stone sphinx beating a, marked resemblance to that in Egypt. Government acliaeologists were leaving forthwith to study the zone, which, according to the discoverers’ preliminary reports, probably includes an entire buried city. A number of hills i n the zone are believed to cover pyramids. On the summit of one there is a huge globular stone covered with a kind of hieroglyphics. The department communique said that there was no known record ol the zone, which it was believed bad -C'ci been seen before oyp white man. The discoverers brough:, pholog.nph- of the ,-nhinx and other r.'.ics with then as proof of their find.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7412, 20 December 1930, Page 12
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