Everyone has heard about the exploits and merits of Alexander the Great, but few know that in his victorious wanderings this heroic man, with the help of his army, destroyed a myriad of ancient monsters, which can be read in the manuscripts describing his adventures.
Let's see who this warrior exterminated and at the same time look for other engravings and drawings in which you can see not only dragons and unicorns, but, for example, snow people.
The British Library has a French translation of the Historia de proelis (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du Bon Roy Alixandre) from 1420, written in France. In it we can see excellent illustrations of the exploits of Alexander the Great.
Alexander met a great many different monsters, here and three-horned and dragons, strange elephants, snowmen covered with wool, Amazons, forest people, cyclops, one-eyed people without a head, giants and many other creatures, which Macedonian considered monsters and without hesitation exterminated everyone.
It is worth noting that in addition to the extermination of the animal world, Alexander was engaged in aeronautics and even created a submarine on which he plunged into the abyss of waters with a dog and a rooster in the form of experimental animals for experiment and tracking their behavior at depth.
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You can, of course, write off everything on the unrestrained fantasy of Alexander himself or the chroniclers, but strange creatures can be seen on other ancient engravings. For example, the Snow People. This bas-relief was created in 1486.
Dragons are generally present in various ancient drawings, frescoes, etc. and so on in a great variety. Apparently, dinosaurs at that time still freely walked around our planet.
Bird woman third century BC.
In general, the ancient noble knights had one manic idea - to kill everything that came in their way, for example - unicorns.
Here's another strange goblin without a neck. Figure 1260.
The knights considered it an honor to kill the dragon and then glorified their deeds by putting the images of the "creatures" they had killed on their coats of arms and shields.
However, in ancient Egypt there are enough images of strange creatures.
Sphinx 620 BC.
Note this page from a 1485 manuscript. The unicorn is drawn as an integral and completely ordinary part of the then animal world.
And here are the dragons engaged in terrorizing the city in 1450. Probably after such dragon raids, the ladies fainted, and the knights grabbed their swords and rushed to kill the dragons.
A dragon and a hunter - a bas-relief on an ancient temple.
This is an engraving from 1534. The dragon has a lot of heads, but as they say - "Fear has big eyes."
These were the werewolves that ran around in 711 and ate gape citizens.
Sea monster coin Kindya, Kariya c. 510 -490 BC
So that's a creature with a goat's head - bam and head off the shoulders.
You think the Chupacabras are just now scaring the whole world - by no means. Here is an engraving from 1760. In those days, chupacabras ate prey larger than modern rabbits.
In general, judging by the ancient chronicles, someone strenuously conducted genetic experiments on Earth, as a result of which a great many strange creatures appeared. The heavenly army also joined in the extermination of all kinds of hybrids and dinosaurs. They did some experiments, and then decided to clean up the defective products.