THE OMAHA SUNDAY-. DEK : AUOUST .2. 1H14. Recent Excavations on Andean Plateau : if- !-t (Oopyrtirrited. 1914. hr Frank (J. Carpenter, f A FAZ. Bnllvla Am W to I LI give you the stnrr of some I wonderful discoveries Just maue in tne neart or the Rn livlan Andes. You may have read of the ruined city of Machu richu, found by Dr. Hiram Bing ham In the heart of the Jungle within four , or five day of Cuxco, the capital of the Incas. That la alluated In Teru. On the high plateau of Bolivia are the remains of another ancient city not far from I.a Tai that has been known for generation. Ita origin lias never been settled, but now out of the ground from under It are com ing pottery, relics of gold and copper and the Skeletons of human beings that lead scientists hern to suppose that It was In existence 2,'i yenrs or mor before the first stones of the Pyramids were laid. This ancient city Is known as Tiahua tiacu. It Is twelve miles from iJike Tl tlcaca, and soma of Its ruins are within a stone's throw of the railway that goes from Gusqul. the Bolivian port on the lake, to I Fas. I stopped there on my way across the. plateau. raftered Over Wide Aren. The ruins are scattered over an area equal to about a dozen W-acre farms. Thy consist of the remains of massive walls, of terraced mounds, and of the treat edifice sometimes called the Tem ple. The latter building covers four acres and tt was made of blocks of black stone thirty Inches In thickness. The stones are much like those of the ancient buildings 1 saw In Cuisco. They were fitted together without mortar and that so closely that I found It Imprsslble to Insert a knife blade between them. ,The stones are cut with absolute regularity, and we have no modern buildings which are more closely fitted together. A a It Is now, most of the structures of 'Tlahuanacu have been carried away, and It la only the mighty pillars that are scattered here ' and there and the cut atones remaining from the old buildings that Indicate the wonders of the past. The temple Itself was In the shape of a rectangle, 445 feet long by feet wide. Ita outllnea are marked by massive blocks of red sandstone, some of which are still erect. They evidently formed the part of a rough wall and they supported a plat form of earth that rose eight feet above the country surrounding. On the eastern side of this platform was a lower terrace, along the edge of which were great stone pilasters ranging In height from nine to fourteen feet and In width from two to four foet. There were ten of these. All except one stand there to day. ' Some Weniirrfol Finds. Near this platform Is what Bquler called the palace. I refer to Bphrlam George Squier, who went to Peru more than fifty years ago at) a special commissioner from the United States and described these ruins In his book, entitled. "Incidents of Travel In the Land of the Incas.". When I was In Bolivia fifteen years ago I went over Squier's discoveries with Prof. Adolfa Bandolier, who was then working for the New' York museum, and he told me that Squier's deductions were In the main cor rect Squier made some excavations un der the temple. He heard from the In diana that there were large vaults beneath it and that an underground passage led from ' there to Cuteo. He dug under the foundations, but found no vault or pas sage. The discoveries recently made are the work of Dr. Otto Buchteln, the dl rector of the National museum of La Pas. Ha has made some wonderful finds In the arth not far from the temple and in the country about. The museum here is fun of them and the work is still going on. I shall describe his discoveries further on In this letter, riving a talk with Dr. Buchteln. Lived Elarbt Thousand Years A arc But first let me tell you what ia still left of Tlahuanacu. The ruin are ac cessible to all, and some may be seen from the windows of the cars passing , through on the way to La Pas. There are remarkable ruins right at the railway tatlon and in the town that surrounds it. The town constats of mud huts, some of which have doorways made of atone brought from the ruins and set Into the walls. ; I saw Aymara Indians sitting In 'these stone doorways and othera stooping a.athey went in end out. The huto are often plastered with mud, and upon the thatched roof a are wooden crosses, ebow. lng the religious nature of the people. Thetown has a Catholic church that has atones , of the ancient city in Ita walls, and in front of the church la a cross on a, pedestal made of auch stones. There are carved idols on each side of the gate way that leads Into the church. They all came from Tlahuanacu, whose people. lived 8,000 yeara ago and worshiped we know not what. , . I The main mine of Tlahuanacu lie on a broad and level plain, situated about a .half. "hill south of the railroad. They are acattered over the plain, some of I'them half burled and others lying well up out of the tufts of grass and other low plants that cover It. The region Is '. the picture of desolation. The Andes are i in plain view, but outside them there la nothing but the mud huts in the distance ; and the alpacas, llamas and sheep, 'watched by Aymara shepherds, spinning jot knitting as they mind their flocks. I Poiirni) of Solid Stone, j One of the striking features of the ruins la a great -doorway cut out of one solid 'block of stone. This it fitted into the ! watts of an old cemetery The block is broken at one corner, but it oilglnally I was a great stona slag eighteen inches thick, and twice a tall as a man. The .doorway that was cut through its center ;is four and a half feet high and almost three feet in width. The stone above the door Is beautifully carved with figures 'that seem to be Egyptian, and over the Idoorvay is a central figure In high re ' lit-f. Some st the figures evidently repre sent kings, tor each holds a scepter and '.tome haw crowns on their heads. -They .have human bodies, feet and hands. ' Other of the stones are enormous. I fw' one thirty-six feet long and seven feet thick,' and another which Is twenty ,ix feet long, sixteen feet wide and aix fet in thickness. Some of the blocks are of sandstone and others are trachyte, dark in color and exceedingly hard. The latter are beautifully carved and polished, i Among tha most remarkable features of the ruins are the stone idols, dug out 'since Squier's time and made to stand upright. Some of these Idols are of gi gantic size. Their bodies are as big around as a flour barrel, and they are mora than eight feet in height. The faces have thick lips, and the heada are ao cut that they would be a delight to the eublats of today. They are all aa- glee, oven to the eyes, nosea and llpe. i Soma of tha amaller idols have been brought to I Psi. There la one In tha center of the National museum here. It Is about three feet In height, and ia ar tistically carved. I took a picture of my alf standing beside R, and also of Dr. C, jf 4; . ,i v . f . . - "' ':-. .... ""' ,. J S Lr t u.r.ff :. -J L w v; ..V T" ! - C - -, ' b' '.rVi S n n " ''''! I IT? fl r & Id No Progress with Mohamcdans Unless Women Are Educated iT. rKTr.RPBVnn. Aug. l.-Th Mo hammedsn womsn In the lluht of today was dlacussed at the Mohammedan con gress which has been In seslon here, and her couse applouded when Akmud Kuram shln, a member pf the first Duma, de clared that without the education of j women It would be quite lmpreIMe to j effect progress among Mohammedans. I "If certain old mullahs continue to pro claim from In the ninsques that women have no need of education." he said, ''they simply apeak Ignorance " The Akmud went so far as tr say every woman over 21 yearn of age should hava a vote on questions affecting the com munlty at large. In regard to matrimony he contended that both parties should be asked before the marriage ceremony 'vhether they were voluntarily entering Into the contract. This, he aald, would eventually put a stop to the idea that Mohammedan women were so many chat-tla. forty delegates from Kuropean and I Asiatic Rusnla. and has been sitting In t St. Petersburg- with the authorlratlon of the minister of the interior. The meet ings have reflected a strong determination rmong the Moslem subjects of Emreror Nicholas to uphold their religious, social and educational rights. The establish ment In Ft. Petersburg of a centralised authority which should look after the In terests of the Mohammedan religion throughout the Russian empire was re garded by many speakers as an urgent need. -ARE YOU INTERESTED. In Seeing Unquestionably the Best Piai iarMi PLEISTOCENE FOSSILS FOUND UNDER LONDON w h.m. vuot JL yarmj wonn iSOO ymAJtrj o Buchtein, the director of the museum, who has been making the excavations. Collection Is Large. It wns in company with Dr. Buchten that I went through the museum and examined the objects he lias just dug from the ground. ' The collection is large', covering many tables and filling several rooms. It consists of pottery of all sizes, from vases of three or four gallons down to the little cups the size of half an egg shell. Some of the objects are almost Etruscan In their decoration. Other pieces have hieroglyphics that make one think of Chinese or Japanese characters. Much of the terra cotta is as fine as por celain, and, when tapped upon, it gives forth the same sound. The bowla are of the color, of terra cotta, and there are beautifully shaped cups, each of which would hold one or two quarts. The col lection altogether numbers thousands of pieces, and it has all been excavated In the last two or three months. Dr. Buchteln believes that the pottery of his latest excavatluns dates back to 8,iX) yeara ago, or to more than 6,000 years before Christ. If lie . is correct, he has found the oldest records of civilization now in existence. He tells me he does not think that Tlahuanacu was the work of the red race, and that he believes that It dates far back of that time to a white race who Inhabited this part of the Andes. In this belief .he is not alone. A scientific traveler who recently passed through here. has brought forth the idea that the . Bolivian plateau was once set- wlthln ten feet of the surface of the earth. The soil above where they were found is sand and Dr. Buchteln says this Indicates that the city of Tlahuanacu was for a long time covered with water, and that this wss the cause of the won derul preservation of the articles. Among the discoveries Is a large number of skeletons of human beings. Tha bones were scattered about, and the jawbones were often a yard away from the skulls to which they, belonged. While In the museum I saw thirty or forty pel feet skulls, which were practically tha same as within a few years after the death of their owners, now more than S.O0O years ago. Those skulls are differ ent from any now known. They are of enormous size, and they Indicate a race of giants. They slope back from the eyes almost to the crown, . reminding one of the flathead Indians of North America. The jawbonea are heavy, and the teeth, after their rest of eighty centuries, are still almost perfect. It seemed strange to look at the . grinning molars ' and to peer into the eyeless sockets of thesa men of 8,000 years ao. Bnrled with Gold. Dr. Buchteln says - that he found the most of the pottery near the skeletons, and that there were two pots beside each skull of a man or woman, and one pot only beside tha skull of a child. . The skulls of the women had platea of gold upon their foreheads. There are many of the plates In the museum. They are of pure gold, but ss thin as paper. tied by tho ancient Phoenicians. This Each bears the Image of a man. show ing that the weaker sex worshiped me ktronger 8,000 years befora the advent of the militant suffragettn. The features of the Image are beautifully marked: they look as though the gold leaf had been pounded or pressed upon a die made for the purpose. They were probably fas tened to the skulls by strings. In talking with Manuel Vicente Bolivian, who is now collecting the exhibit this country will have at the Ban Francisco exposition,- I have learned that many of these ancient objects . will be taken to the United States and shown there. Dr. Bolivian says that he is In correspondence with the University of Yale aa to ita Bend ing a aclentifie expedition here to Investi gate the ancient civilization of Tlahua nacu and certain other archaeological wonders of the Bolovlan plateau. Dr. Buchteln says thst many other parts of Bolivia have evidences of prehistoric races, and that the museum will gladly welcome foreigners who wish to investi gate them. He thinks, however, that what is found should In whole or in part be given to the National museum of I -a Pas. Many Cnrloos Objects. Tha museum has many objects outside those I have described. It has huge atona figures from Tlahuanacu. One head that stands on the floor of tha court is mora than a yard high, and its eyes are as big around aa a dinner plate. The figure la Assyrian in Its carving. The doctor thinks It represents the head of a warrior. Among the most Interesting featuregtof the museum is a targe collection of mummies, recently discovered not far from the Una of the Arlca-La-Pai rail road, which last year was first opened to traffic. They come from near Cala coto, a station about fifteen miles from the road. They are supposed to be the mummies of the Chulpas, who lived be fore the time of tha Incas. Each mummy Is inclosed in a bssket or bag of fiber, with a window In Its ride, out of which sticks the head of the mummy. Tha ma terial of the bag appears to be a pine apple fiber, and It Is firm and strong, not withstanding Its great age. The threads are evenly twisted, and each bag Is woven to the exact size and shape of tho mummy within. la Itttaar Post are. Tha mummies were buried in a sitting posture, with their legs so doubled that the heels kicked the thighs and tha knees met the chirr. The arms were clasped back of tha neck. I aaw scores of these mummies, and upon my asking the doc tor to be allowed tu make aome photo graphs, hs aided me In carrying several out Into tha court. The one that I moat tenderly handled was that of a young woman. bfl was at leaat 1,600 years old, man claims that the gold of Ophir came from tha Andes. He says the Bible states that it took three years for the ships to make the journey to themlnes; and this Is borne out by I Kings, tenth chapter, twenty-second verse. In the navigation of those ancient times it would certainly hava taken ss much as three years for a ship to have passed out of the Mediter ranean, through the Strait of Gibraltar and across the Atlantic ocean to the west coast of thla continent and back. Tho verse referred to says they brought back gold and alao almug trees, and ivory, apes, and peacocks." .There is no ivory in South America and. the peacock comes from India. As to apes there are plenty of monkeys In the lowlands of this continent, but as to the almug trfe. jl know it not. l Some Ancient Implements. The excavations of Dr. Buchteln In clude many finds of Implements of stone and also some of gold, copper and bronse. The first belong to the stone age, and the latter are aald to data before the timesof the Incgs. As'to the pottery. I saw much that seemed . to indicate an Egyptian origin. Many of the eupa and bowls have the shape ,of a rat. They made me think of Bubastis. the famous seat of the worship of the cat In the daya of the Pharaohs. The ancient city was situated In the land of Goshen, not far from where Zagazlg now stands, and right on the route the Egyptians took when they came dewn Into Egypt for corn. Bubastis had many cat goddesses and Us chief goddess was a cat-headed woman. It had a cat cemetery, situated on the west side of the town. This was crammed with cat mummies, many of which had been Incased In cat-ahaped rasea of wood and bronze. I photo graphed some of the cat-bomls from Tla huanacu, and their heada are lifelike. Dr. Buchteln found skeletons of llamas among these cat-pots. He thinks the an cient citizens of Tlahuanacu may have worshiped llanwts In connection with the jaguar, which has a head Ilka a cat. Some of the heads are aa big as my two fists, tha vases being covered with spots like those of a leopard or Jaguar . Other vases show the heads of tho condor, tha great vulture eagle of the high Andes.. ISMst of Terrs otta. Among tha Implements are spoons of terra cotta and of bone. There are knives of bone, some of which are sharp; and also narow paints of obsidian. There are also bona rings, and bone needles of va rious kinds. There are stone pipes drilled out of a rock as hard as quartz. How the people were able to drill the holes without steel or other metal is unknown. Ail of these finds have coma from but, although she had lost her fleh, her bones were sound and' her teeth were as white as snow and In n far better state than my own. I carried her out of the daiknesa nnd sat her down gently on the stpps beside nie. In the full light of the sun. I then laid my hand caress Ingly upon her head, and as the doctor photographed lis I repeated the soliloquy of the hero in Tcnnyfon'8 "Vision of bin" as he dsnces the tango with his skeleton partner: You are bone, and what of that? Every face, however full, Tedded round with flesh and tat, Is but modeled on a skull. Death Is king, and Viva Rex! Tread a in -a sure on the stonea. Minium-If t know your eex. From the fashion c.f your bones. No, I cannot praise the flra In your eye nor yet your lip; All the more do I admire Joints of cunning workmanship. Older Than Inena. ' The Inhabitants about the region of Tlahuanacu are Aymaras, the race that includes most of the red men of Bolivia. It Is different from tha Inca and is sup posed to be much older. It la by no meana certain, however, that tha Ayma raa were the original Inhabitants of tha country, and I am told that the rhapa of their skulls proves that they were not so. Tha Aymaras have their own stories as to their origin. One of these Is that tha first people upon earth became so wicked that tha gods turned them Into stone, and the Idols of Tlahuanacu were the result. Acordlng to .their tradition of the creation, the world was made by tha great god Pachacamac, and at firat It was beautiful to look , upon and filled with comforts for man. It was ruled, however, by one Khunu, who seema to have been an angel of darkness rather than of light. It was he who brought drouths and cold and other troubles, in creasing them from time to time until man became little more than a beast. Then Pachacamac fought the devil Khunu. He sr)rrod rains over the earth, causing the deserta to ; bloom; and ha brought forth the sun. to warm It. There upon the Khunu added to the rains and the flood came, during which the earth was covered with darkness. The fiaht went on, but Pachacamac finally con- quetcd, appearing a the aun god, and covering the world with light. He created another god to a'd him,, and thla god cut down the mountains and made the pla teaus. He wiped out the deserts and caused springs to; flow forth from ' tha rocks. It waa under these gods that man got a. fresh start and eventually rose to be the lords of creation.; FRANK O. CARPENTER.. LONDON. Aug. 1 Authorities it the South Kensington . Museum of Natural History have determined that tho fossil bonen of a lion's leg and of a mam moth's hip which waa recently discovered thirty-five feet below tha surface of Fleet street belong to the Pleistocene period. These prehistoric relics were found within thirty yards of the apot where the skull of a woolly rhinoceros, bones of tha rein deer and of the extinct great ox and horse were found several yeara ago. It . la common enough to find Roman relics when excavating in the center, or "city," of I-ondon, but fossils of the Pleistocene ago are ao rare aa to be of striking Interest to the geogollsts. F. E Beddard, F. R. 8., answers the question as to how these animals made their way Into the British Isle. "During Hie period of the earth's his tory which saw these great beasts grat ing on the plains of northern Europe and Asia," 1 he said. "England waa not di vorced from the continent, and the Thames flowed on to Join the Rhine." DOMESTIC SERVICE IS BIG INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN Ever offered buyers in this part of the country? 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