Show mysteries of architecture world la full at well preserved TG 0 architecture which have sizzled the human mind tor centuries chere are many elaborate buildings aa relics the use or design of which Is unknown the Noras rhe 0 sardinia perhaps have been discussed tor a longer time than any other structure on earth greeks and romans speculated over them and the learned men of all nations arc speculating still they are howera standing on an artificial mound thirty to sixty feet high and one hundred to three hundred beet in circumference at the base some which have a lower platform are nearly double this latter dimension the material Is stone regularly worked with a hammer they show neither saul plure inscription nor cement sore of the blocks are immense A very low entrance but broad leads by a gentle incline into a passage of good height communicating by another very low doorway with a domed chamber small holes boneither on either side betray the existence of two or tour cells cut in the thickness of the walls several feet in length breadth and thickness from this dome a spiral staircase rises steeply taking one to a similar apartment above somewhat ome what smaller and on again to the broken top of the Nora ghe tor not one 0 hem Is entire there are more than three thousand of these structures some authorities argue that they are tombs some trophies of victory some alre temples some observatories acme even bouses it Is impossible to tell what form of building religion may command so its not difficult to imagine that the were temples or giant albirs of sacrifice nothing has been found in them but other remains not less are generally found close by and strange to say nowhere else these are the giants graves low walls of rough stone a parallelogram sometimes forty feet long and six feet broad paved with enormous slabs they always lie northwest to southeast arid at the latter angle stands a headstone a single block pot loss than ten feet high behind this away from the graves the walls are prolonged to form the segment of a circle at the foot of the headstone Is a small square aperture finely cut many hundreds of these strange structures remain they represent prodigious labor and no little skill in mechanics but all that the i roost diligent research can fand out about them Is that no one is burled there some english my ferles in essex and middlesex in england there are puzzle buildings the moat ingenious antiquarians have not been able to ascertain who bunt the Denes curious perpendicular shafts aenk ln tha earth with lateral chambers at the bottom nor do they know tor what purpose they were used but it Is evident that they might serve either as granaries or dwellings or places of retugio in time of trouble all these theories have been argued therefore the denes and other unexplained but not inexplicable may be put aside the of kerry also baffle the scientists as to the probable objects ot their belne they are apparently mounds ot earth somewhat overgrown with grass perhaps twenty feet high and sixty feet in diameter when the turf Is removed wo see an outer wall ot stone encircling the space supporting generally a root of large slabs sometimes tha substructure Is sunk in the ground when the slabs do not appear to form a roof but a pavement somewhere in this wall Is an entrance a narrow hole upon a level with the earth crawling through this we and the space intersected by walla which split up into chambers they all communicate with one another by these holes just large enough for man to crawl through each chamber has an outlet tor venella vent lla lion in the surrounding wall there la a rude fireplace in the cells most distant from the entrance though how tha inmates could have had any sort ot a alre without being Is a mystery the floor ot a rath Is always dry for a spot with natural drainage was selected ajmo tool or bone has ever been found in them except objects evidently introduced at a recent date what may have be sn the purpose ot these buildings mot as a hiding place lor the rath Is always conj located not as borts torts since tho enemy had only to close the rs and au the inmates would have suffocated it they were dwellings the people who lived in them must havo been dwarfs for tho shortest european race could not stand upright in them it has been isug that they the cellars of a small village or communal house built upon the roof of perishable material but in that stage of civilization cellars were not necessary some more architectural conundrums have recently been unearthed near boklo japan these are a series ut caves with which certain hills are actually actu aly honeycombed no less than lave been explored they are hollowed in sandstone after a style of architecture always the same the entrance Is low and carefully shaped A few feet within the passage widens forming a chamber one metre square grooves in the walls and in the root and sometimes in the pavement suggest that a slab or stone or some kind of door here ort communication but why the living room beyond had neither light nor air tor it was cut in the solid rock this room is always square and domed with an area of fro n six to nine feet and the top ot the dome rather more than six feet from the boor this again suggests a race of dwarfs shelves and cavities are hollowed in the walla and every chamber has a bed place the larger two or three many 0 the chambers are go close together that the walls are not more than a foot apart but only in three instances has any communication been ob and one of them was purely accidental though the smoothness of the sides showed that the accident had been made use of daiy objects were discovered inside which are of vast antiquity but all of the historic time left doubtless by he people who used these dwellings before they were burled A series of marks were also found which have no resemblance to either the chinese or japanese alphabet |