The creatures on this particular art, which is housed in the Ethnographical Museum of Budapest, bear a striking resemblance to the hadrosaurids species Corythosaurus and Lambeosaurus. The artwork to the right seems to show warriors on a platform fighting crested dragon-like animals. Dayak mythology tells of a time, before the creation of man, when the sea was the home of a mighty underworld dragon who opposed the gods of the sky. Up till the colonial period of the 1800s the Dayak peoples of Borneo and Sumatra produced multiple pieces of art depicting long-tailed, long-necked creatures with a headcrest. A sauropod with multiple heads, a condition known as polycephaly, while curious, is hardly unknown among dinosaur reports. (Click for an enlargement of the dragon.) Note the similarity to a baby sauropod dinosaur. The picture shows the guildsmen, followed by clowns and what seems to be a mechanical three-headed dragon. It was written and illustrated under the direction of Abdulcelil Levni (aka Abdulcelil Çelebi) who was the official Ottoman court painter till he died in 1732. The Turkish painting to the left, entitled “Procession of the Trade Corporation during the Festival of 1720 in Constantinople” is in a surname (or historical album) called The Surname-I Hümayun archived at Topkapi Museum of Istanbul. Perhaps dragons were not as common in the eastern European/Middle East theater at that time.
One such popular dragon myth involves Azi Dahaka – a three-headed Persian dragon that will devour one third of all men and animals at the end of the world.Īlthough the Ottoman Empire ruled for over six centuries, there are not many depictions of dinosaurian creatures in their artwork (as compared to Medieval European art).
Several malevolent dragon-like creatures are mentioned at various points in the Zoroastrian scriptures. The ceremonial undertones of this vessel lead us to believe that it was associated with Zoroastrianism. Dragons form an integral part of Persian mythology and beliefs. The most fascinating element of this vessel is the stylized, scaled dinosaur-like dragon that forms the spout. To the right is a bronze Persian pot manufactured toward the end of the 1 st Millennium AD that is part of the Genesis Park collection. (Shuker, Karl P.N., “The Sirrush of Babylon,” Dragons: A Natural History, 1995, pp. Both the description there and the image on these unearthed walls, which are now displayed in the Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum, appear to fit a sauropod dinosaur. The same word, sirrush, is mentioned in the book of Bel and the Dragon, from the Apocrypha. But, on what creature did the ancient Babylonians model the dragon? (click the depiction to enlarge) Koldewey believed that the sirrush was a portrayal of a real animal and in 1918, he proposed that the dinosaur Iguanodon was the closest known match to the sirrush. The lions and bulls would have been present at that time in the Middle East. The animals appear in alternating rows with lions, fierce bulls (rimi or reems in Chaldean), and curious long-necked dragons (sirrush). Many centuries later German archaeologist Robert Koldewey stumbled upon the blue-glazed brick and that gate was rediscovered in 1899. In 600 BC, under the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, a Babylonian artist was commissioned to shape reliefs of animals on the structures associated with the Ishtar Gate. Mammoth drawings are not unusual in such cave art, but the depiction of an apparent theropod dinosaur is remarkable. It was taken by the author in Bernifal Cave, one of the caverns in France that is renowned for Neanderthal art. To the right is a picture of what appears to be a bipedal dinosaur with small arms in head-to-head combat with a mammoth from the book Buried Alive by Dr.
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