Ancient sources tell of mysterious creatures resembling reptiles in appearance, which once abundantly inhabited the earth. Obviously, there were many of them, and of different types and sizes: both large and small. These creatures had their own names. For example, the ancient Europeans called them "dragons". The description of dragons is almost the same as the description of dinosaurs. The ancient legends about dragons, which almost all peoples have, most likely arose from the memories of dinosaurs. Scientists all over the world agree that legends are based on certain facts and cannot be just a play of the imagination. It is no coincidence that legends about dinosaurs - dragons and their images can be found in any part of the world: in Africa, India, Europe, as well as in the Middle and Far East, in North and South America. Even Australian aborigines and Amazonian savages know about snakes and dragons.
Dinosaurs are mentioned not only in the earliest written records of history, such as the Bible. Back in 1928, the encyclopedia wrote that "Dragon" is "A very rare, but still living creature."
… In the town of Staraya Russa, Novgorod region, an unusual figurine-whistle was found, which clearly depicts a dinosaur. As reported by the SAE (Old Russian Archaeological Expedition), a mysterious find was found in the central square of the town.
According to preliminary estimates, this whistle is at least three hundred years old, but two things remain incomprehensible to scientists: firstly, why the master chose a dinosaur as a prototype for this statuette, and secondly, why is a collar depicted on the beast's neck.
It turns out that in the seventeenth century, on the lands of Veliky Novgorod, artisans knew not only about dinosaurs, but also had information that he once drove these ancient animals, like, say, dogs, on collars. And although this is just an assumption, however, at the moment experts are in a difficult situation, because they cannot answer what kind of animal the artist actually depicted three centuries ago and why he “put” a collar on him …
By the way, there are many mysterious figurines and statues in the world, many of them, when discovered, literally shook the world, since they did not fit into the generally accepted (invented) history. They could completely shake its foundations if the general public were told the whole truth, if the powerful of this world were not so tightly tied to all this lie …
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One of the most serious arguments supporting the theory of the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs is the Ica stones. Thousands of painted stones are kept in a private collection in the Peruvian town of Ica. Some historians consider them to be a modern fake only on the grounds that the stones depict maps of unknown continents, transplant surgeries of internal organs and people at the same time as dinosaurs. But skillfully engraved stones are still found in ancient burials, and so far no one can explain the mystery of the appearance of such intriguing plots on these stones. Dr. Javier Cabrera's collection of stones numbers more than 11,000 items, of which about a third depict a person together with dinosaurs.
This stone very accurately depicts a Triceratops with detailed anatomy, and even long before the remains of this dinosaur species were discovered by scientists.
An ancient Peruvian next to a sauropod depicted with skin thorns on its back. Paleontologists only recently (1992) learned that some sauropods had a median row of cutaneous spines.
Another artifact that convincingly confirms a direct link between humans and dinosaurs is the collection of Dzhulsrud. Tens of thousands of clay figurines depicting dinosaurs were found by Voldemar Julsrud in Mexico during the excavation of El Toro Hill in 1944. The collection contains many anthropomorphic figurines, an almost complete set of racial types - Mongoloids, Africans, Caucasians (including those with beards), Polynesian type, and so on. Approximately 2,600 figurines are images of dinosaurs! Among them there are easily recognizable and well-known species to paleontological science: Brachiosaurus, Iguanodon, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pteranodon, Ankylosaurus, Plesiosaurus and many others. But the most striking thing is that the collection contains a significant number of images of humans along with dinosaurs of various species.
In 1969, in the bed of the American Paluxy River (near the Texas town of Glen Rose), Stan Taylor saw a chain of human tracks in shallow water. The site was carefully cleared with the help of excavator equipment and found fourteen right and left footprints of a person's bare feet. But the most striking thing was that there were more than a hundred paw prints of a three-toed dinosaur nearby, approximately the same geological age! These fourteen ancient (apparently human) footprints, once left in the muddy sediment, were called Taylor's track. This ancient breed is over 100 million years old.
There are many other proofs of the simultaneous existence of humans and dinosaurs. Around the world, in many cultures, both ancient and not so, many images and products have been found, one way or another related to dinosaurs.
The Nile Mosaic, or as it is also called the Palestinian Mosaic, at its location is an antique mosaic, 585 by 431 cm in size, depicting the Nile bed and scenes from the Egyptian life of the Ptolemaic era. The date of creation of the mosaic is controversial - most scholars tend to date it to the reign of Sulla (1st century BC). The word KROKODILOPARDALIS, written in Greek, literally means Crocodile Leopard.
On the wall of one of the temples of ancient Angkor, covered with fine stone carvings, an image of a stegosaurus was found among swans, monkeys, parrots and deer. Scientists are not suspicious of the authenticity of the carving. The bas-relief was undoubtedly created together with the temple over a thousand years ago.
The ancient stone carvers were skilled craftsmen who created magnificent bas-reliefs. Almost every square inch of gray sandstone is covered with ornate carvings. Hundreds of volumetric decorative stone circles with images of familiar animals, monkeys, deer, buffaloes, parrots. It is reasonable to assume that the ancient masters saw these animals, since they were able to convey their characteristics so accurately. Consequently, they saw a stegosaurus.
One of the ancient cylinder seals of Mesopotamia, which is more than 5,000 years old, also depicts dinosaurs. In body structure, they are strikingly reminiscent of Apatosaurus, which belongs to the Sauropod family. Due to anatomical features, sauropod legs cannot be confused with any other dinosaur species.
In Natural Bridges National Park, Utah, the Anasazi culture left a petroglyph depicting Apatosaurus. The animal has a long neck with a tail and a small head. Not far from this place there is another image of an upright dinosaur. The fact that the animal is upright and balancing on its tail may indicate that a prehistoric artist may have seen such a dinosaur pose with his own eyes.
The Black Dragon Canyon got its name from the Indian petroglyphs of the Fremont culture (700 - 1250 AD) depicting ancient lizards. The drawing on the rock resembles a large winged reptile or pterodactyl of the Cretaceous period. In 1971, Douglas Lawson, of the University of Texas at Austin, discovered dinosaur fossil bones while doing fieldwork in Javelina Formation Park. His colleague Dr. Wann Langston Jr. determined that these long, hollow and very thin-walled bones could only be a pterosaur wing with a span of about 18 m. Subsequent excavations yielded nothing, and scientists concluded that the wing was separated from the body before being buried. Lawson named his find Quetzalcoatlus after the supreme deity of the Aztecs, the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl.
The ancient ancestors of Pueblo also left petroglyphs depicting dinosaurs, which can be attributed to the Hadrosaurs or to another species of duck-billed dinosaurs - Lambeosaurs.
Here is another curious "dinosaur" drawing depicting a fire-breathing dragon. The petroglyph is located in Middle Mesa, Wypatki National Park, Arizona. This petroglyph, photographed by Chris Maier, is called "Puff the Magic Dragon" and is very reminiscent of a fire breathing dinosaur. Fake drawing is excluded, because the surrounding stones do not contain any organic matter. The age of the drawings on this panel and those located nearby is not known exactly. It is believed that they are at least several hundred years old, but with the same success they can be 1000 or more years old.
Dinosaur fossils were first discovered in Thailand in 1976 by accident when geologists from the Department of Mineral Resources were prospecting for uranium ores in Khon Kaen province. One of the expedition members dug up a large bone, which turned out to be part of the skeleton of a huge sauropod. Later, the remains of dinosaurs were found in other provinces of Thailand. The art of ancient Thailand also did not stand aside, and often uses stylized dragons in its works. A photograph of an ancient Thai artifact, from the book Asian Art, intended as a burner or candlestick, appears to depict a stylized version of the sauropod, a type of dinosaur that was actually found in Thailand.
Another similar item was found in the north of Vietnam. The Dongson civilization product is made of cast bronze and dates back to the 3rd century. A. D.
Kalimantan, located in the center of the Malay Archipelago, is the third largest island in the world. Despite active human intervention, virgin tropical forests and vast swamps, in which rare representatives of the fauna live, are still preserved. In the art of the ancient inhabitants of Sumatra, images of animals with a long neck, a long tail and a crest on their head are often found. Some of them resemble hadrosaurs and other types of dinosaurs.
This statuette, carved from wood, depicts a dinosaur eating game.
The figurine was found in one of the mounds of the Pazyryk culture in Altai. Clothes, silks, wooden devices and even preserved food were found in the same mound.
Recently, about 700 skeletons of dinosaur fossils were removed from black "archaeologists" from the Chinese province of Guizhou. Small lizards had long necks, long, curved tails, and five elongated bones that made up their legs. Zhao Xijin, an ancient vertebrate researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, suggested that such animals may well have become the prototype of the Chinese dragon legends. But China's Guangming Daily stood up for dragons and said the dinosaurs were not the ancestors of the true dragons in Chinese mythology, but simply looked like them.
Bestiary - a medieval collection of zoological articles with illustrations, which briefly describes various types of real and imaginary animals. Here is how the Aberdeen Bestiary describes the dragon: “The dragon is larger than all snakes, he is larger than all other living creatures on earth. For this reason, the Greeks call it dracon, from which its Latin name draco is derived. The dragon lives in a cave, from which it often comes out, shaking the air. The dragon has a crest, a small mouth, and narrow nostrils - the holes through which it breathes and releases its tongue. Its strength lies not only in its teeth, but also in its tail, which it kills with one blow. The dragon has no poison, which he simply does not need. With its powerful tail, it kills everything that is within its radius of action. Despite its enormous size, even an elephant cannot defeat a dragon. Dragons are born in India and Ethiopia,where it's hot all year round. " The headline on page 48 reads: “Two types of dragons are shown here killing elephants. Through their strength, cunning and malice, Dragons defeat elephants, which are the most powerful animals on earth. They were waiting for the elephants in ambush and suddenly attacked them, wrapping their bodies around the elephant's legs so that they could not move. Dragons strangle elephants, bite through their skin and drink blood, after which the elephants die. " In this and other similar books, you can find many images of dragon-like creatures.that they could not move. Dragons strangle elephants, bite through their skin and drink blood, after which the elephants die. " In this and other similar books, you can find many images of dragon-like creatures.that they could not move. Dragons strangle elephants, bite through their skin and drink blood, after which the elephants die. " In this and other similar books, you can find many images of dragon-like creatures.
The ancient artisans made many zoomorphic ceramics. They are called zoomorphic when it is impossible to determine exactly which creature the artist wanted to portray. As a rule, all mythological animals are identified as zoomorphic. If it is correct to assume that humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time, then we should see this fact reflected in works of art, just as it happens with other animals. The picture below shows a zoomorphic vase that is at least 2,000 years old. The vase is of ancient Roman or, more likely, Mycenaean origin. If you pay attention to the details, the vase depicts a flat-headed dinosaur, which at one time were very common. The product very accurately conveys the shape of the body of this type of dinosaur,has a characteristic flat head and even shows the texture of the skin on the back. Also, flat-headed dinosaurs had more powerful hind legs than front ones.
If not for the theory of evolution, then when faced with images of dragons and other "mythical" animals in works of ancient art, we would immediately recognize them as dinosaurs. But evolutionary theory teaches us that humans and dinosaurs never interacted, and we are forced to come up with other explanations for the obvious. The animal depicted by the terracotta figurine of the Jalisco culture (Mexico) is classified by historians as a "horned toad", perhaps so. But on the other hand, the product very accurately conveys the features of armored dinosaurs such as Ankylosaurus, which are believed to have become extinct millions of years ago. If not for the absence of a tail, which could break off in a couple of millennia, the figure could serve as a guide for the study of this species of lizards.
Ankylosaurus were among the most successful dinosaurs and have existed on the planet for over 60 million years. These armored creatures had stocky legs and a short, heavy body. They varied greatly in size. Some were about the size of a large turtle, while others were as huge as a car. Ankylosaurus were designed as tanks, shells and spikes reliably protected them from enemies. Even the eyelids of these animals were covered with armor.
This image is part of the ornament of the ancient Moche culture that inhabited Mexico around 100 - 300 AD. The object is identified as: "a bat on a crescent moon off the northern coast of Mexico." But more believably, this ornament depicts a baby Pterosaur hatching from an egg at the moment when it breaks its shell. Since bats are mammals, and as such are born immediately alive, no bats hatch from an egg.
On the other hand, pterosaurs were reptiles and could actually hatch from an egg. More recently, a well-preserved egg was discovered in China with a fossillized pterosaur calf hatching from the egg. It turned out that the ancient artist Moche, so accurately depicted the moment of emerging from the shell, as if he saw it with his own eyes.
Many Chinese dragon dinosaurs are depicted with horns in artwork. A bronze detail found in 1990 in Henan Province dates from the 770s to the 500s. BC. In the mouth of this dragon is a flower. The body of the dinosaur bears an obvious resemblance to the body of the herbivorous horned dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, which did eat foliage and grass, including flowers.
This Chinese ceramic figurine from 475-221 BC shows a man riding an animal very much like a dinosaur. Without going into details of what type of dinosaur it resembles, it can be noted that any resemblance of real animals that surrounded humans with dinosaurs is considered accidental, because they missed each other in history for millions of years.
It is a product from the Zhou Dynasty (1100-256BC), which is over 3000 years old. Is there any doubt that this artwork depicts a dinosaur? Or again, the mythical creature is more like an iguanodon than its alleged depictions of 19th century paleontologists, reconstructed from bones.
These antiques are also from China and date back to 1400. The gallery positions them as birds, although the animals depicted have numerous signs of predatory platypus dinosaurs. The image of Brachylophosaurus was recreated from a skull found in China.
Contemporary artists have done an outstanding job of creating fairly accurate images of Pterosaurs from the fossilized prints of these animals found in Cameroon.
The images below, from the Malkfield collection, show two headdresses from 1604-1675. found in Cameroon, which are identified as wood carvings depicting birds. Perhaps the ancient carver also mistakenly believed that flying lizards are birds, only large ones.
Often, images similar to dinosaurs can be found on antique textiles. Of course, one cannot say with certainty that the image on the pre-Columbian tapestry is a stylized dinosaur, but there are certainly certain associations.
Tapestry. Interim Period. A. D. (1000-1476), cotton and wool. Foreign Office, Boston.
Tapestry. Egyptian (Coptic) 8th century MFA, Boston. Denm Waldo Ross Collection.
White Mexican Cotton, MFA Brocade, Boston Denm Waldo Ross Collection.
It is believed that the first discovery of dinosaurs in North America was made in 1854 by Ferdinand Hayden during his exploration of the upper Missouri. Near the confluence of the Judith and Missouri rivers, Hayden discovered several separate teeth. Two years later, the first sufficiently complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered and the world recognized it, Hadrosaurus foulkii. Named after its inventor William Parker Foulke, this specimen was found in sand mining in New Jersey.
The real significance of this skeleton was in its limbs and their size. For the first time, scientists studying dinosaur fossils were able to notice that some dinosaurs were bipedal and walked on two legs rather than on all fours. The idea of standing on two legs and adopting the appropriate posture became revolutionary for the reptiles of that era.
According to various estimates, about 10-15% of all species of dinosaurs that have ever existed have been found to date. Every year new and interesting discoveries are made around the world. This means that when we are faced with the image of an unknown creature, it may be that it has simply not been discovered yet. It should also be borne in mind that all images of dinosaurs are the result of modern reconstruction based on complete, and more often partial, fragments of the skeleton.
