“FIELD OF THE DEAD”
GREAT SCIENTIFIC HOAX TOMBS AT GLOZEL By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Sunday. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily News” says if M. Dussaud, a French archaeologist, is correct in his deductions a tremendous scientific hoax has been exploded. M. Dussaud attended a secret meeting of the of the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Art, and told them the Field of the Dead at Glozel, where what were supposed to be authentic prehistoric objects had been found in tombs, was a fraud. The speaker said the inscriptions purporting to reveal the world’s oldest alphabet were false, and the drawings of animals quite recent and possiblydone by- schoolboys. The bones of animals found were the remains of modern cows.
The Glozel tombs were discovered in 1924. They contained 200 objects which were supposed to have been associated with prehistoric man. The most eerie were imprints of hands on an inscription tablet found In one of •he tombs. M. Dussaud asserted that the discoveries were clumsily fabricated by modem persons.—A. and N.Z. --
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 1
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