Ever seen a skull of an elephant? There's this large hole in the center, where the trunk goes. But to them, it very may have been where the idea of the Cyclops came from.truth dancer wrote:Last night on the history channel, there was an interesting show that sort of relates to this thread.
An archaeologist noticed how some ancient Greek drawings reminded her of some dinosaur bones.
To make a long story short, turns out, there were indeed dinosaur bones found and revered by ancient Greeks from which many of their myths originated.
The point being, this supports the idea that cultures, (similar to ours), knew of, collected, and revered prehistoric bones of extinct animals.One-breasted female warriors; the one-eyed, man-eating Cyclops; the ferocious griffin, part bird, part lion. Were these creatures, celebrated by the ancient Greeks and immortalized by Homer, something more than myth? Join the hunt with some of today's leading paleontologists as we explore newly-translated evidence and examine remains that may link the Greek classical age with Earth's prehistoric past. New data suggests that the ancients searched for, excavated, measured, and displayed massive fossils.
http://www.history.com/shows.do?action= ... eId=175413
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Here's a link http://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/Brian Laundrie ... 57128.html that talks about that very subject.