MEXICAN TOMB
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY VALUABLE HISTORICAL MATERIAL 15TH CENTURY TREASURES (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7.50 p.m.) Mexico City, January 17. A Mexican tomb just uncovered near Oaxaca was revealed to-day to be a veritable storehouse of historical material and treasures of fifteenth century Mexican civilization. It is believed that the sepulchre represents the richest and most important discovery ever made in North America and rivals historically and intrinsically the tomb of Tutankhamen. It contained the bodies of ten Mexican warriors bedecked in gold and precious and semi-precicus stones and jewels, including several crowns of pure gold, pearls as large as pigeons’ eggs, jade necklaces, golden masks and vases of gold, alabaster and onyx.
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Southland Times, Issue 21606, 19 January 1932, Page 5
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114MEXICAN TOMB Southland Times, Issue 21606, 19 January 1932, Page 5
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