Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-03-30 | Page 8 | Traces Found of Lost Race

TRACES FOUND F OF LOST RACE Sahara Once Populated Sa Say French Scientists s Who Explored Desert ALGIERS Algeria UP UP Traces Traces s ks ot of t a lost Jost civilization dating back bad k thousands of years to an era when n the he vast Sahara desert was populated were reported by a French a logical expedition The expedition headed by Professors Professors sors ors Gauthier and reached BUda Blida outside Ah Algiers after exploring the ic heart of the Sahara I They reported the indications were that hat the thc desert was once populated by y men and animals Later it lost its vegetation and was buried under the trackless sands The Thc scientists reported that inscriptions ons and other evidence were found dating back almost to the stone age and nd and antedating One treasure found was a tone oric account of a horse race between eight ight chariots resembling the chariots chariots char- char of the a later people described by Herodotus as once having having hav hay ing lag held sway in northern Africa The explorers explorers' found carved and painted stones picturing giraffes ostriches os os- riches elephants rhinoceroses and soldiers bearing lances The report will be sent to the French rench Academy of Sciences and In- In Inscriptions To the period of the says ays the Britannica assigns the remains of remarkable re re- remarkable hydraulic works and certain tombs and rock sculptures sculptures sculptures-indica- indica- indica ons it is held of a negro civilIzation civilization tion on of ancient date which once existed existed ex ex- isted fisted in the northern Sahara The whether of at Libyan LIb LIb- ym yan an or negro origin had certainly a considerable degree of ot civilization when in the year 19 10 B. B C. C C they were conquered by the Proconsul L. L Cornelius Cor- Cor nelius Balbus Minor and their countr country added to the Roman empire