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Show Prehistoric Man Tn Mexico. i (The Mexican Herald.) For the last two weeks Leopold Ba-tres Ba-tres has been excavating one of the Fmall artificial hills to the southeast of the Pyramid of the Sun. This is one of the tumuli that form the row of the Street of the Dead. Here have been discovered a number of rooms, which are apparently a part of an ancient temple with rooms and patios. Below these, stairways lead to a large room pome thirty feet in length. Apparently there are other rooms on this level connected con-nected with one another. These are the first subterranean houses that have so far been found in the valley, and they show that in 'this buried city the houses were two and Three stories high. The upper stories had been destroyed by fire, but the lower remained untouched, and upon them there still remains the red paint which was the characteristic color of Teotihuacan. Among the interesting things found Is the skeleton of a man supposed to have - Veen one of the ancient Toltec kings. Beside the human skeleton was that of a tiger, and both were painted red. In' addition to these there were also found ! large quantities of sea shells, obsidian I beads, jade and obsidian idols, knives, snakes and polished stone masks representing repre-senting heroes who lived 3.000 years aeo. Many spiral shells were also encountered en-countered which had holes drilled through them, showing that they had been used as beads. They were beautifully beau-tifully polished. Many copper, brojize. chichehuite and pprite obiects were also found among the others, showing that the dead man must have been of great importance in his day. Many of these were beautifully beautiful-ly pclishr-d and of extraordinary size. |
