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TWELVE NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1948 ARCHAEOLOGY'S BOON PICTURED Man's Material Wealth, Historic Lore Greatly Increased, W. G. Paul Says By LEROY INMAN A "pot of gold" exists at the foot of the rainbow for many archae ologists who pursue their quest to the end, Walter G. Paul, himself an archaeologist, told Lions Club members last Thursday night. Paul, who will leave this week for Southern California and go thence to Mexico, Central America and Peru, reviewed archae ological finds and told of the vast Intrinsic wealth, not to mention the wealth of historical knowledge these discoveries have netted. He described discovery of a temple In Mexico which netted $12 million, finding of the tomb of GhengU Kahn, which netted wealth in excess of $20 million, and of the nine cities of ancient Troy, whose wealth is estimated in excess of $110 million. He sum marized the vast remaining ex ploration which may prove a "pot of gold" for enthusiastic archae ologists. At least 800 cities in the Tigres and Euphrates valleys mentioned In the Bible remain un discovered, he .;aid. Man, from the earliest primitive days, has lived and died by the sword, and their plunder remains. "But In all man's findings, re vealing of the secrets of the past, his analysis of the stars, his con quering oi lime ana space, me re leasing of energy stored in the tiny atom with all these discover ies, man has failed in one thing: The problem of living In harmony with his fellow men, he staled. ' Discussing what he termed vthe Romance of Archaeology," h told of his travels all over the world in the last 45 years. 7mple'i Wealth Cited . Mt. Album in Mexico, explorers found, covered a magnificent temple, with gold and silver stones valued at $12 million. Three temples in Guatemala contained Jade found previously only In Asia and carved ivory thought to exist only from elephants In Africa. How it got there Is a ques tion, ne stated. I Weathering of stones of ancient I Cities of Peru, from where the I Spaniards stole vast wealths of I fold from the Incas, date backL 000 to 6.000 years. : I ' Paul told of a visit 45 years ago I to Lake Tllacaca, highest lake In I the world, on the border between I Bolivia and Peru. At this 13,000 ! I foot elevation, where neitherl' grain nor grass can grow, has!, been found evidence of a clviliza-i 1 tion, of temples and cities. He saw l' a rock weighing 351 tons, cut from a quarry 17 miles away, and a sec- I ond stone cut, but never moved, i' from the same quarrv. The most N Eowerful cranes today lift only i I 50 tons. I1 On Easter Island, 2500 miles out 1 In the Pacific off the shores of Chill, where there is no arable l' land, statues appear carved on , mountain slopes and show other traces of civilization. "Are these islands stretching across the ocean part of an ancient submerged con tinent?" he asked. He told of a larger stone, cut and moved, found on the Nile River In Egypt weighing 1012 tons and of a stone in Syria weighing 1154 tons. Treasures In Asia Removal of gravel from a hill side In China bv Chiang-Kai-shek's workers ten years ago uncovered a tunnel which proved one of the most astonishing finds ii, history. inaiue were Dones, many petrified, of 18 primitive men, women and. children in a sin gle room. The skulls revealed brain capacity of 90 cubic centi meters, compared to 1540 cubic centimters for the brain of an ave rage American today. The gravel deposits did not come from (hat mountain, but hai. been left there by one of three Ice ages, dating from 25,000 to 900,000 years ago. ' Twenty years of search by a I Swedish scientist revealed Ihei tomb of Ghengis Kahn and treas ures worth $20 million the loot of this Chinese war lord. A life sized horse and life sized tiger In pink Jade, worth Its weight In silver, were discovered. Priceless Art Found Paul said he visited caves found In Spain which housed the skele tons of the cro magnon man 6000 years ago. Found there were art works the like of which has never been duplicated at any time In his tory. The life-like motion of ani mals of that day are unparalleled in works of art. The race was a fine specimen, and it is believed the Basques of Spain are direct descendants. Troy's Discovery Told Seventy-four years ago, a Ger man archaeologist, reading Homer, concluded the city of Troy, believed a fable, actually ex isted. His many months of search brought fruit, when a shaft came down directly upon a huge copper kettle, which contained treasures valued at $110 million. He had dis covered the ancient city, and the removal oi me mountain revealed the ruins of the city and Its marble statues. Below the streets of the first city he found a second, which con tained less wealth but some gold, silver and Jade. 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