Gunnison Valley News | 1920-10-08 | Page 7 | Find Altar Room of Aztecs

FIND ALTAR ROOM OF AZTECS Interesting Discovery in Pueblo Ruin in New Mexico Has Recently Been Made. The most satisfactory event to mark so far the work of the American Museum Mu-seum of Natural History in its excavation exca-vation of the Pueblo ruin at Aztec, N. M., Is the recent discovery of what wna evidently the holiest shrine of this prehistoric pre-historic people, records Popular Mechanics Me-chanics Magazine. It takes the form of a room, bare of furniture, but in perfect condition. The walls are plastered, plas-tered, and are painted in a glaring white with dull red borders and a frieze of triangular designs. On the ceiling beams are strange marks mada by rubbing the palm and fingers in white paint, and then pressing thorn upon the wood. From these beams hang several strands of beautifully made rope, presumably for the support of some sacred objects. On the ceil- ing, too, is carved a serpent, two and one-half feet in length, and in design unlike anything known to the arclieolo-gists arclieolo-gists In charge.