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Show ANCIENT AMERICAN BOOr. New York Hqjibh to RtTt Twr 014 . Copy of Amfe Work In Htr-Offlyphia. Htr-Offlyphia. When hieroglyphs are mentioned one naturally thinks of the records of ancient an-cient Egypt; yet before Columbus landed on these shores the Aztecs of ancient Mexico had a most elaborate system of writing in hieroglyphs. They formed long strips of deerskin into books folded screen-fashion, on which were depicted signs and representations repre-sentations of ceremonials. These old pre-Columbian books the Spaniards greedily collected and burned so that only ten are known to-day in the whole world. One of these has only recently been found in one of the libraries of Europe and an exact copy presented to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where it will shortly he placed on exhibition. The text represents repre-sents the history of the lives of several sev-eral individuals. One recounts the life of the La fly Three-Glints, who has two husbands and a child and goes through elaborate ceremonies. Another portion of this old "Codex," as it is called, says the New York Times, t reats of t he life of a great lord and conqueror named Fire Deer, who, in company with other chieftains, makes many conquests. This old bonk proves most conclusively how love, religion re-ligion and warfare went hand in hand in the lives of the ancient Mexicans, just as in people's lives to-day. |