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And what have they uncovered? They have dng down in one case through thirteen cities, built the one on the top of the other, each on ground that covered the ruins of a past one. A city was built on what was apparently solid ground; that city was dug throngh, then a layer of ground under the ruins of the city, and lo! beneath the ground another city. Then ground, the earth, again; through that once more, until the third city is discovered, and so down and down and down, till thirteen cities are unburied and only then the virgin soil is found. In another case, in the eighth city similarly unburied, a vast library was discovered of more than one hundred thousand volumes, volumes made of clay, written while the clay was soft and then baked hard and so preserved; vast temples of splendid architecture, records of kings who, thirty years ago, were spoken of as myths, but now are found to be historical monarchs, stretching back to seven thousand years before the Christian Era. Then in Egypt, tombs opened which have been closed for, at least, ten thousand years, and from the mummied bodies of the dead fragments of papyrus taken, on which were written the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, and the knowledge that the soul needed on the other side of death, to guide him through the intricacies of the unseen world. Treasures again in ancient China, leading up to the famous Golden Temple of Atlantis, and allusion to the Lord of the Golden Gate, who was the mighty Emperor of that long perished Empire. The earth of the dead giving
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