| Show LOST CITIES Thirty three Forgotten Towns Eavo Deem Reclaimed by Americans I The closing years of tho nineteenth I century were marked with many notable 1 nota-ble achievements archaeology On L thcsltfcoian9lent Ilium on the plains I t jit of Persia and In the mysteryhaunted valley of the Nile recent hands unveiled un-veiled the lonjjhldden secrets of the past and added Wondrous illumination Illumina-tion to our knowledge of the very dawn I of history In such a wpvk it I is gratifying grati-fying to record that American bounty I and enterprise and scholarship played a most honorable partthis youngest of the worldsgrcatnatlons being foremost fore-most in acquaintance with the relics oC the oldest Forty years ago the Marquis de tvogue discoVcreojln4harpart of Syria t Itf lying back of Antioch traces of an ancient I an-cient civilization of a high order He was able however to gain only a jeep into the marveioua volume written in mighty monuments amid the desert sands It wan left for American enterprise enter-prise In the last two years of the century cen-tury fully to unfold the ample pages for the amazement and Instruction of the world No less than thirtythree longforgotten cities have bcon discovered i discov-ered and identified some of them with architectural remains of surpassing grandeur and of exceptional Interest as expositions oC the civilization and the social order1 that there prevailed < The admirable workmanship o t an Y T cleat times and the climatic conditions 1 H of hose desert uplands hao served to keep I J thcso cities from decay so that l they stand there today substantially i ns they were 1200 years ago and tho Camera today lays before us scenes upon which Zenobia may have looked a and acrosu which Bcll arlus may have i swept in triumph The story Is one T that reflects high crpdit upon tIlO 4 American explorers who did the work 1 and upon the four Americans whosO fL names are modestly withheld I t whose generous bounty supplied the i means through which alone the doing Tribune of the work was possible New Yorlc tE o |
