Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-22 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

V Freaks s and Oddities I I In hi n Science N News c A piece of or scientific det detective work in which an old shrine pointed the way to the hiding place of or the ruins of ot a a. still sun older bridge has been carried out by the provincial pro- pro museum at Trier In the days of or the later Roman empire Trier was the he capital of all the Roman world north of the Alps Its widely assorted citizenry worshiped their many gods in a great group of ot temples in the valley alIey or of f the little stream known knO as the Altbach until a powerful Christian bishop in the fourth century made madea a a. clean sweep of the whole t temple mple district smashing the Images of ot the gods and hurling the FIND fragments of many of or them into the creek creel RUINS OF bed It was only within the past five years ears ROMAN that L the remains u of ot this temple dis- dis were erea ana partly ex ex- ex Alter After digging up the ruins of or more than sixty temples tem tem- pies ples les and an ancient Roman theater excavators turned at attention to the ancient creek bed where the shattered images mages still presumably lie Ue They had already found the he old Roman road that ran past the temple district There must have been a bridge A shaft was sunk near ear the old shrine and more than a dozen feet Underground underground un- un the diggers came upon the Roman bridge 4 S Study of or beautiful serpent carvin carvings that adorn n no Mayan palace in the thc ruins of Is to start soon The facade of oC the building is to be reproduced and nd set up in the Brooklyn museum The facade is isa isa isa a mosaic of carvin carvings s with the serpent as STUDY TUDY the theme The Feathered Serpent an SERPENT ERPENT important Mayan deity was the CARVINGS tion Uon for this art design Over the doorway of the palace is an elaborate mask panel in the form lorm of a great serpent serpent serpent ser ser- pent face Locks of or hair hah are in the form of scrollwork scrollwork scroll scrollwork work between the eyes of or the serpent face and around round the earplugs The head band worn by the serpent erpent is carved to resemble headed double-headed snakes surmounted by rosettes Serpent faces in profile adorn each side door and anti tiers ot of small faces laces decorate the sides of the entire facade o fo rip The building Is of or stone and mortar with the sculptures cut in very hard well preserved stucco It t was built and used by the Mayan Indians about 00 A. A D. D Dr estimates