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Beaked dinosaur fossils did not "inspire" the #Griffin of classical antiquity
but descriptions & observations may have confirmed & helped to perpetuate the story of a fierce mammal w beak lurking in Central Asian deserts in a specific time period ca 650 BC -AD 300
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@DaneNJ @AntigoneJournal close! Maybe Virgil's patron Emperor Augustus requested a Volscian heroine in the Aeneid--
Augustus was proud of his Volscian heritage
Camilla
Aztecs & other indigenous people of Mexico told the 16th c Spanish how their ancestors battled #Giants & showed enormous mammoth femurs as proof
The Spanish thought the bones were the remains of giants drowned in Noah's flood
Fossil mystery for #FossilFriday
Is the priestess carrying a fossil mammoth thigh bone?
Aztecs & other indigenous people of Mexico told Spanish how their ancestors battled #Giants & showed enormous femurs as proof
Mexico AD 761 Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco
Lord Byron deplored Lord Elgin's theft of Acropolis marbles, but his own souvenirs included “deadmen’s bones found in certain sepulchers within the long walls of Athens" and “four skulls dug out of sarcophagi at Marathon.” For more Grand Theft on the Grand Tour, see #FlyingSnakes
"Cretaceous Cowboys"
Carter County Museum, Ekalaka Montana
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