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Show Prehistoric Finds In Turkestan. Paul Pelliot, the young French ex plorer of Chinese Tu;keitan. has fouad in caverns at Tuan Huang, Bilk rolls which are Chinese manuscripts, some of them embroidered by artists, who seem to have stepped out of The Arabian Nights. These roll3 have been immured in these grottos for 900 years, and when deciphered and translated will tell the story of a civilization that flourished over a thousand years ago and is dead. The explorer brought back 5,000 rolls,- but as there are 500 grottos he believes many more libraries libra-ries will be found. In the last few years archaeologists at work In the Mediterranean island of Crete have unearthed un-earthed ruins and pottery which i rove that civilized people inhabited Greece as far back as 2600 B. C. The system of drainage in the prehistoric city of Gnossus, in Crete, is more sanitary than any found in any historic age anywhere on earth until the nineteenth nine-teenth century. The life of the human race upon this planet is being traced farther and farther back. The earliest known civilization is being found to have been preceded by one still earlie.-. One curtain of the past upraised reveals re-veals another curtain whith the scientists scien-tists are certain conceals still more secrets. |