Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-07 | Page 3 | Here's the Oldest American Antiquity

HERE'S THE OLDEST AMERICAN ANTIQUITY i It looks like a mud-pic Billikin, but the scientists of the United States Museu min Washington say that it used to be worshipped as a god by th people who lived near Vera Cruz, Mexico, 100 years before Christ and that it is the oldest dated American antiquity. The statuette was uncovered fifteen years ago by the plow of a Mexican peon, but the secret of the inscriptions on it have only just been solved by the savants in the employ of Uncle Sam. The scientists say that in the strange characters discernible in tho picture there is a hint to further buried evidences of tho life of the ancient civilization and they hope to uncover new secrets of this old American raco of people.