New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1928, Page 2

EXPLORING PAST THRILLING TASK Big Kick Obtaied in Digging Up 01d Secrets Washington, D, C., July 27T—Mys- tery. slender clews, sitting the evi- dence, third degree, facts from & \aboratory test tube, deduction by the stars, imprint casts, treasures in caves, unknown code languages! All the standard devices of thrill- ing mystery stories stand revealed as the very stuff of the unrelenting ex- plorations into the human race’s checkered past. Every good explorer of our racia past must be a Sherlock Holmes, says a bulletin from tife Washing ton, D. C. headquarters of the Na tional Geographic Society. Did Monsteur Lecoq ever turn a neater trick, for example, than Mariette? Mystery of the Sphinves While Mariette was in Alexandria looking for Coptic manuscripts he noticed some sphinxes in gardens of wealthy officials, Later he saw | similar sphinx figures at Giza and | Cairo, and the idea came to him that they might have been brought from a single ruin. But where? Then while walking near Saqqara, Egyut, he found a sphinx half bur- ted in the sand. Suddenly he remembered Stabo and a paragraph written by that| Greek geographer two thousand years ago: “One finds also (at Mem- phis) a temple ot Serapis in a spot so sandy that the wind causes the sand to accumulate in heaps, unde which we could see many sphinxe Marlette dug at the sphinx and found an inscription. This was it! This was Strabo's Memphis. This | was the Egyptian Serapum where the sacred bulls were burfed with a funeral worthy of a Pharaoh. Gath- ering workmen Mariette stripped off the sand and revealed an avenue of 141 sphinxes housed to the massive bull caskets housed in a quarter of a mile of galleries. Reading the Maya Calendar Another remarkably clever piece of scientific detection closer home only last year released the secret of the Maya calendar. Although Yucatan was the home of the Mayas, the first clew to their writings was discovered in 1863 in the dusty archives of a Madrid li- brary; the first real advance in solv- ing the enigma came at Dresden in 1890; important correlations were Ily years at Washington, D. C.; and the final interpretation of Maya his- tory in terms of Christian time, year for year, day for day, and even hour for hour, was worked out last year, Dr. Morley, in Washington, linked the Maya and Christian calendars running back to 600 B. C., with the possible erorr of about a month and, in 1922, predicted the elimina- tion of that error by an appeal to astronomy. By studying the phases of the planet Venus which were used for time-fixing by the Mayas, Dr. Spinden, of Harvard, finally wound up the “Maya Calendar Case” 63 years after it was first propounded. Dead languages have always puz- zled archaeological detectives. “Egyptian hleroglyphics were just so many mystifying sketches until the Rosetta stone came to light. And numerous scholars over a period of 230 years concentrated on cuneiform riting before the key to the Sum- crian languge was found and could | be used to unlock the clay tablet ibrary of Ashurbanipal and the vast literature of man's earliest, with one thrust the long awalted discovery opened the door to 3,000 { more years of man's history. An Anciegt Billboard A tough bone for anyone to chew on was the cuneiform “arrow head” text Pietro del Valle copied in 1621 and brought back from the ruinc of epolis in Persia. After two hun- dred years the scholars had made a little progress on it; they found that Darius, Hystaspes, and Xerxes were the subjects ot the paragraphs |in code. They found that they wefe working with a syllabic writing like shorthand. Slowly the case moved on until the most interesting cipher hunter of them all, Major Henry Rawlinson, went after it What detective in fiction is more intriguing than this amateur phil- | ologist using up his annual leave | sitting on the hot sands at Behistun with field glasses pressed to his eyes. He drops the glasses a moment and makes curious lines on a pape once again he trains his lenses on the red cliff before him. High up an ancient tyrant has carved an eternal | billboard of his own prowess and | fame. Although he illustrated his self-advertisement his poster was a “flop.” Nobody could read it. Still | Rawlinson's curiosity was aroused and so he sat on the sand scrupu- lously copying cuneiform bold face type hoping to discover what the vain king was trying to shout across the ages. After a year's study of his copy- book Rawlinson sent to London & translation of the first two para- graphs contining the name, titles and genealogy of Darius the Great. Darjus’ generous remarks on the well developed civilization. Then | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALL, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1928 e e 30 significant as Rawlinson’s solving of the Sumerian cuneiform sypher. With Rawlinson's key Smith went to clay tablets found the Euphrates Valley and read from them the story of a flood like that recounted in the Bible and another story of a baby in the bullrushes closely parallel to Moses’ experience. “Hen tracks” on the tablets revealed the Hammurabi Code of the first recorded laws and also the business letters, deeds and marriage contracts of Abraham’s people. Cache of Mummics Sometimes the Sherlock Holmes sort of subtle, mind-leaping expert is not so effective as a strong-arm, precinct captain, type. Superthird degree methods once forced a con- tonishing Pharaoh mummy cache in Egypt. In 1881 the appearance of anclent papyri in the bazaar stalls gave hint that some native had made an important discovery. Sus- picion fell on a certain Abd-el-Ras- soul, who, when the governor had carried on an investigation “‘with his habitual severity.” (probably a beating on hands and feet with & stick) meckly led an archaeologist to an obscure shaft entrance, the well of an unfinished tomb for Queen Astemkheb, Within, the sci- entist came upon a catacomb crammed with the kings of early Egypt, the mummies from many empty Fharaoh tombs, that had been secretly removed to this out- of-the-way pit after a tomb-robbing scandal had alarmed officialdom 3,000 years ago. Then there is young Casterst with an exploit in 1923 for sclence’s sake which might figure in a “thriller” only it some athlete would be the leading figure. Casteret was explor- ing a cave in southern France, hop- ing to find the dwelling place of cavemen known to have lived in the region 20,000 years back. He pene- trated the grotte until the stream running through it touched the roof! Were there, beyond the block- ade, more galleries which might have been attainable in the Ice Age? He resolved to find out. Taking a @eep breath Casteret dived into the cave stream and soon found an- other passage. Later he swam through again with candles end matches in a rubber cap. His daring was doubly rewarded, for there, shut ip a chamber in the hills, he found the statue of a cave bear; the covered and in the clay bear's flanks were the spear incisions by which | played with, and of the perches to which the sacred clan macaws Were | plainville boy who has recently been chained. 5 added to the group, will leave for In the refuse piles of vanished ci- |Scandinavian ports tomorrow noon ties the explorer culls out bits of {to play their part in the exchange broken pottery and glass, and from |of boys which has brought six young fession that revealed the most .as-¢the gweepings of a dead people he |1argest prenistoric statue ever dis- | 1and at San Francisco from Aus. the cavemén showed what they | would do to any bear that tried to | invade their homes. “Sifting Evidence” at Pueblo Of course when a detective, in or out of a book, epeaks of “sifting the evidence,” he speaks figurative- lv, but the archaeologist literally of sand and rock from the ruins; were put through the sieve. Carter and Carnarvon moved debris shovel Ly shovel for 16 years before they fell on the tomb of Tutankhamen, Mounds that were Nineveh and ! Ur archacologist s have passed through screens which gave up been added to the Scandinavia- Lound group. Stevenson is the youngest of the group from this sec- tion, being 13 years of age. In the fall he will enter the ninth grade. His father is superintendent of the Plainville Casting Co. There will be a banquet for (hci Ids, gold beads, c d nvil iboys and their families at the an coins. 3¢ wan serscoings. e |Plai0ville Youth Inclnded D !woie Commogore. New vork it Trip to Scandinavia gave evidence to the National Geo- graphic Society expedition at Pueblo Bonito of the lost culture; of the plants grown, of toys the children learns how and when they lived. Calendars in tree rings have been | boys who used in a delicately drawn scheme | der special adult leaders, under the to wrest the secret of Pueblo Bo- |direction of Dr. Sven V. Knudsen, nito's age. The question was; how |internationally famous explorer and long ago did an Indian people live [advecate af world peace. The New Britain boys are Win- house in Arlzona. Log supports!throp Warren, son of Mr. and Mra. found in the ruins gave Dr. Neil M. | E. L. Warren of 81 Curtis street; Judd an idea. If he could match |Harry B. Slade, son of High 8chool rings of 10g cross-sections with oth- | Principal and Mrs. L. P. Slade of 19 er logs of known dating, he might | Ellis street; John 8. Black, Jr., sol fix the age. Working with Dr. A. E. jof Mr. and Mrs. John 8. Black o in the big prehistoric apartment Eight New Britain youths, with a Danish subjects to this city. will be included in a body of ¢00 e making the trip, un- Douglass he traced back the treelsn Lincoln street; closed and the explorers are hopeful but it may at last yield by tree | ple Hill. “prints” the exact year some ten | centuries ago when the last of the Bonitans fled from their monument- | o¢ al communal home.” Cardinal Cerretti to Visit This Country Rome, July 27 (®)—Cardinal Cer- retti, head of the pontifical mission which will leave Sunday to attend the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney opening next September, will visit the United States on his return trip. The Cardinal spent several years in America as auditor of the Apostolic delegation at“Washington where he has many dear friends. He expects tralia on Nov. 18. ope. Pius gave an audience to the entire pontifical mission today. SPECIAL! Large |of Mr. and Mrs. 205 Broad sfreet, Plainvill H. Stevenson Washburn, Jr., son enry 8. Washburn They Willlam Judd, alendar through the oldest living |Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam trees, then through cross-sections of | H. Judd of 25 Murray street; Harold logs in modern pueblos which had | Parsons, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. heen salvagpd by the Indians from !Harold Parsons of 335 Russell broken down Spanish missions. Still |street; John Loomis, Jr., son of Mr. two gaps in the ring years remain- jand Mrs. John C. Loomis of B6S5 cd. But one of them has now been |Lincoln street; Donald Bartlett, Jr., 5 {son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bartlett of closing the other soon. The of 212 Lincoln street, and Graham search, discouraging at times, Dary, son of Dr. and Mrs. L. E. spread over a period of six years, |Dary of 70 Maple Hill avenue, Ma- tonight. At 11:30 o'clock tomorrow morning they sail aboard the “Hellig, Olav.” Two groups of 100 each will leave the boat at Oslo, Norway, and go to Sweden, ene group te Gothen- burg and the other to Stockhelm. The rest will continue to Denmark, where they will be split into four groups of 50 each. One of these will pass ten d: t Odense, on the island of Fyn: a second at Vejle, in southern Jutland; & third at Aal- borg, in northern Jutland: and the other at Bornholm, an island in the Baltic sea. 1 On August 19 the four groups ia Denmark will combine and return, to Oslo for eight days. On the 29th the whole 400 will unite at Copen- hagen. The return trip will start on September 12 on the “United States,” which is scheduled to dock at New York on the 28rd. Most of the local youths do not known to which group they will be attached. Winthrop Warren, how- ever, has asked to be one of those going to Stockholm and this request has been granted. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. 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