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Shannon News, 4 January 1924, Page 3

The secret of the. light used .by the ancient Egyptians. wjas one shared apparently by the archaic civilisations of portions of the Americas. In 1922 (lie expedition sent out by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, uncovered ruins in Columbia, Whose windowless buildings suggested, by the complete absence of smoke marks the possible knowledge of electricity or some mysterious illuminating agency. In the still intact halls, amid the vast buried remains elsewhere in South America, of which few even suspect the existence, there is also no trace of smoke, while the .very narrow entrances and aibsen.ee of windows inevitably suggest a light which 'neither smoked nor vitiated the atmosphere.