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Show ANCIENT 11 . HOME UNCOVERED Sealed Room With Beautiful Decorations Discovered in New Mexico Ni;Y York, July 12 ddltional , Indication that the Hueblo Indian cliff I dwellers at Aztec, X. M., founded the' , Artec and Bonlto cultiirs has been uncovered un-covered by new excavations of the. 1 America n .Museum of Natural History, I I it was announced here today Discovery of a. sealed room in per-1 per-1 feet condition at the I'uoblo ruin inl j Aztv. surpassing in beauty and ia:c I of preservation any previously found in America were reported to the museum by Dr. Clark Wissler, 1 urator of anthropology. The interior of the sealed room is plastered and painted in brilliant white with dull red side borders and a running series of triangular dc-l signs. Or. lasler reported. A sacred .serp-nt carved in wood decorates th:-ceding. th:-ceding. It is 2 Ml feet lonK and of the flni -it workmanship. On the celliiu; beams are Imprints of hands In whltoj paint. Several' strands of finely made: 1,11,. ),.,.- ,1, ,,. nwA mm . 1. 1 I a large number of nicely cut stone 'slabs, one of which was 2 by 1 foot and 1 inches thick Several adjoining rooms, seeming to I bear a relation this sealed one, are I yet to be uncovered. Dr. WlsSier stnt-co. stnt-co. Continuing on the Aztec excava- tions, he said. Since the greater part of the west side is now uncovered, one can got .1 full svve P over this Immense complex com-plex of sione wulls and quaint doorways. door-ways. Our excavutlons havo revealed that the greater part of tho east and north sides of the city were swept by fire. The ceilings were of wood, supported sup-ported by great log3 of cedar and spruce, overlaid by split cedar and bark These Cell down upon each I other and lay In the lower rooms Inj great charred masses We found the I bodi a of several unfortunates caught in ihe rooms. "As the fire did not reach the west idc we found a large number of rooms with ih.lr ceilings still Intact and household utensils on the floor just as they were ieft " |