Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-14 | Page 4 | Tomb Wall on Dead Man's Chest Found in Mexico

Tomb Wall on all Dead Mans Man's Chest Found in Mexico A second tomb of Monte Alban eclipsed when it was discovered by the sensational find of treasure in another Is described as of great scientific ent ic importance in an official re report report report re- re port being prepared by archeologists of the Mexican National museum A burled buried underground chamber lined with stone entered through a passageway first revealed remains of two pairs of leg bones A transverse transverse transverse trans trans- verse wall had cut the skeletons at atthe atthe atthe the ribs When it was removed it disclosed disclosed disclosed dis dis- dis- dis closed a second room with the skulls on the other side of the wall as if the partition had been built upon their chests The skulls rested on a pair of or large pottery incense burners with long handles like dippers Between them sat an idol urn of or a god thought to be Quetzalcoatl the feathered snake painted red with cinnabar the Mexican funeral color His headdress headdress headdress head head- dress is of plumes his tongue bifurcated bifurcated blur blur- like a serpents serpent's and his upper j law jaw aw is like ilke a tigers His ornaments 1 a ire are sea shell symbols appropriate to Quetzalcoatl One door jamb of the tomb has unreadable unreadable un un- un re readable dable glyphs and a great quantity of ot pottery and other objects was contained in the tomb A curious thing was a big pottery potter pipe two feet long and five inches in diameter Similar tubes were found i in n other graves In five out of the s six intact tombs explored p plural ral burials had been made