dinosaur. It’s just casually there in amongst the other everyday images of birds, a dog, an eel, etc.
a beautiful representation of two Brontosaurus looking creatures (fig.111).
And the list goes on: There were reports of a ‘flying serpent’ matching the description of a
Pterosaur living in Egypt that persisted through to the 1600’s. There are the depictions on the Ica
stones discussed earlier in chapter 2 (fig.112), depictions in Egyptian Tombs (fig.113). We find a
slate palette from Hierakonpolis showing the triumph of King Nar-mer over what appear to be
Pterosaurs, (fig.114) ancient rock art by North American Indians (fig.115), a cave painting of
Brontosaurus like creature in the Gorozomzi Hills, 25 miles from Salisbury England; in the
Mayan city of Tajin in Vera Cruz, there are rock carvings of what appears to be a Pterodon. And
still the list goes on and on.
Fig.111 Fig.112
The same question persists: How on earth could these ancient drawings of anatomically correct
dinosaurs come to be all over the world unless the artists who drew them were not in some way
familiar with the creatures?
Fig.113 Fig.114
In another remarkable find in 1945, (one of my favorites), an archeologist called Waldemar
Julsrud came across copious amounts of clay figurines which lay buried at the foot of El Toro
Mountain, located in an area near the outskirts of Acambaro, Mexico. In all, over 33,000 of the
small ceramic figurines were eventually found in the area and all were identified to have come
from a Pre-classical Culture known as the Chupicuaro (believed to have existed in the locality
from around 800 BC to 200 AD.) The authenticity of this find has often been questioned by
Academics though because, lo and behold, the collection also includes anatomically correct
dinosaurs (fig.116).
The discovery was considered very controversial so, in 1954, the Mexican government sent a
team of respected archeologists to investigate the site which they then announced to be authentic.