Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-30 | Page 3 | Lindy Turns Archaeologist, Makes Find

LiNDY TURNS ARC ARCHAEOLOGIST MAKES MAKS fiND Flying Colonel Uncovers M Mayan yan Lost City in Jungles SANTA FE lE N. N M. M L July 30 CAP AP Civilizations Civilizations' width which now flowered re in Central and North America at a time when wIlen Charlemagne's military genius was consolidating a Do vast cm cm- pho in are arc surrounding the thc secrets of their ruins ruina to this ngo ago with Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh Lindbergh Lind Lind- bergh a a. prime mover mo In the research work Xh Tha glory which was Maya ex ex exemplified c by archaeological discoveries discoveries eries cries of ot the aborigines' aborigines knowledge of architecture astronomy sundry arts and writing writing writing-is Is being emphasized emphasized sized through h th tho medium of the airplane It wn disclosed here yesterday that the flying colonel aided by his bride Is taking a a. keen Interest In archaeological and has contributed to lo tho historical scroll thu of or nn ancle ancient l Mayan an lost city in the Yucatan Jungles HE JiE WONT WON'T TALK Tho Tho find find was made while Colonel Lindbergh was making his l Pan Pan- an American goodwill tours But nut the story atory of the colonels colonel's Interest In air photography of such ruins ruins' is one which had to be patched to together and nd e eventually verified after a a. 1 lapse pe of ot almost a. a yon year in which he exhibited hI his usual disinclination to talk about himself and his personal perona perona per per- ona ona activities His interest aroused by the YUcatan Yucatan Yucatan Yuca YUca- tan discovery Colonel Lindbergh consulted Dr J J. J C C. C president president president dent of ot the Carnegie institution of Washington and on d invitation advIsed advised ad ad- vl ed the institution regarding the methods of ot making aerial surveys g gIn in the tho tropics tropic At Dr Pr Merriam's suggestion ho lie agreed to photograph photo photograph graph Arizona and New Mexico lo localities Jo- Jo known to contain ancient Pueblo ruins as aI well as unexplored r regions alons It was was' during 1 h hV stay with ith his bride at the mp at I the Pc Pecos os ruins In this O a sat t that hat tho photography raphy proS proS' program was a In ht Ia- Ia I He and Mrs Irs Lindbergh to took k pictures in Chaco canyon Po Po- jarito plateau j and In the Blo Grande Chama and Pecos valleys s Air Ah cys surveys have been haVo been checked with ground surveys ys made by mem members rs of f tho the Carnegie institute of or PlUs bursh Phillips academy and the laboratory of anthropology here i Numbers of 01 the photographs arc tareS subjects heretofore unknown to archaeologists sighted from the tire air PHOTOGRAPHS MADE The photographs have been beep de developed do- do by Wesley y Bradfield in fit the laboratory of oC the Uie School of ot American Ameri Amerl- tian can an Research hero herond and nd have beens been sent s nt to the Carnegie institution at Washington Perhaps no no other civilization loD of tho new world with nIth th thA exception of f th the Aztec Indians ns in Mexico has spurred historians to greater ro romantic ro so- mantle mantic fantasies than loan th the the- Mayans Mayan This script archa archaeologists ha have vo re reported reported ie re- re ported contains several lr true c characters and Alid approaches thereby the a syllable or or alphabetic system Yucatan and neighboring districts arc alO strewn with monumental mOl umen tal tat r ruins ruin of Mayan f ran culture It was one one of these ruins that the colonel chanced and ind his curiosity curios curios- ity aroused roused he circled it several times making making- notes notes' for future ref ref- That was the gen genesis of or his venture into the th arch archaeological photography to S