Iconcluded yesterday's post mentioning a lost city that was "discovered" by a professor named Wolfe. I cited an article published in the New York Times on September 24, 1922. You can read the full text online here.
I posted about it back in 2014.
The same person, Wolfe, also discovered a skull that was older than the one of Java man, an Homo erectus, the discovery was announced in the February 27, 1923 issue of the NY Times.
Of course, the skull turned out to be a stone! (see my post on the skull).
Wolfe had a vivid imagination and a hunger for fame. The NY Times seems to have been very open to wild ideas back in the early 1920s! But, to be fair, the dikes do look like a manmade wall. Below is a picture (Source) showing a "Subvertical dike of the Posadas Basalt known as the Wall of the Caesars. It is located on the road to the fishing grounds of Lake Cardiel, intrudes reddish mudstones of the middle section of the formation of the same name, and is characterized by the cooling joints that form very prominent cubic blocks". It's name alludes to the city of the Caesars. Notice how it looks as if it was made from individual stone blocks. Enough to misguide an amateur archaeologist. The geological paper I quote, describes it as follows: "It is a subvertical structure with a very homogeneous width of 0.70 m, and a visible height and length of 12 m and 160 m, respectively. It is yellowish-brown in color due to intense weathering and is divided into blocks by a series of subhorizontal joints." Roughly 1 foot, 4 in. wide and 36 ft. high by 500 ft long.
Below are two more views, honestly, it looks as if made with individual blocks of stone (Source)
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