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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