Dinosaurs in History a scrapbook 1 Introduction If you believe (as I do) that God created the world a little over 6,000 years ago, then that means that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time. This raises an interesting question: if people and dinosaurs did live together then where is all the evidence? After all, dinosaurs were incredibly large, imposing creatures. Surely if ancient man had encountered a T. Rex they would have written home about it! It's just inconceivable that they could have lived among such legendary animals and never mentioned it. So where's all the evidence? The astonishing thing is that there really is an incredible amount of evidence that dinosaurs and man lived together. Ancient cultures did record encounters with fantastic beasts that they called “dragons”. They wrote about them, created sculptures of them, and carved petroglyphs of them in canyon walls. In fact, they even mentioned them in their weather reports! What's more, these ancient cultures did such a good job of describing these animals that it's possible to identify exactly what dinosaurs they were talking about. It's true that they didn't call them dinosaurs, but that word was not invented until the 19th century. How could they possibly have used a word that didn't even exist yet? You may be shocked to find out just how much evidence is actually out there! Take that picture to the right, for instance; it shows a human footprint that was stepped on by a dinosaur. Believe it or not, this is a real fossil that has been authenticated as genuine – and there are many other fossilized examples of human footprints right next to dinosaur footprints. Why haven't you heard about this? The answer is simple: the theory of evolution teaches that dinosaurs and man did not live together, and so therefore any evidence that they did is immediately rejected. People don't even need to examine the evidence before rejecting it! They use their theory to throw out all evidence that disagrees with their assumptions. Think about it. Let's say that you walk outside and see a pterodactyl. You immediately rush inside and call the local TV news channel. “Send a TV crew over right away!” you exclaim. “I've got a real, live pterodactyl sitting on my back porch!” Are they going to send someone right over? Are you going to be interviewed on TV? Of course not! No one's going to believe you. After all, everyone knows that dinosaurs died out millions of years ago. So let's say that you take a high-quality picture of this dinosaur and send it to the news channel as proof of your astounding discovery. Will they take you seriously then? Not a chance – they'll just dismiss it as an obvious Photoshop forgery. What if you take a video? Sorry – they're not interested. How do I know this? Because people actually have taken photographs of pterodactyls! (Check out Section 65 of this book [page 168] to see what I mean.) There are people alive today who have claimed to seen real, live pterodactyls, and even took videos of them. If you'll notice, none of those reports ever made it to the front page of the local paper. In fact, there's a good chance that if you hadn't 2 run across this document you would never have heard about it. These things are just not reported and they're never going to be. Evolution is the theory that cannot be questioned – the powers-that-be will not allow it. Before you leave to browse through this document let me make it clear that, aside from the Appendices, the information you find here is not mine. All of this material was taken from this incredible website: http://s8int.com/ (It's “saint” - get it?) What I have done is taken a large portion of their amazing finds and put them together into one, easy-to-browse and easy-to-share document. This is a scrapbook of discoveries that they've made – discoveries that really need to be more widely known. Why did I do this? Because websites come and go; a terrific resource that is there one day might be gone the next. I've seen too many valuable repositories of information disappear to allow this one to suffer the same fate. Besides, this information needs to be passed around as widely as possible. People need to know the truth – there is a God, and His Word can be trusted. I hope you enjoy this walk through history. The Archivist 10/14/2010 3 Table of Contents Introduction......................................................................................................................................2 1: What Recorded History Tells Us About Dinosaurs and Man.......................................................6 2: The Stones of Ica..........................................................................................................................8 3: The Palestrina Mosaic..................................................................................................................9 4: The Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur Scaphognathus crassirostris: A “Living Fossil” Until the 17th Century...................................................................................................................................10 5: Apatosaurus (sauropod)on Mesopotamian Cylinder Seal (and pterosaurs?)..............................12 6: The Acambaro, Mexico, Figurines.............................................................................................12 7: Anasazi Apatosaurus Petroglyph................................................................................................14 8: Fifth Century B.C. Dragon/Dinosaur from Pazyryk...................................................................14 9: Bel and the Dragon (From the Apocrypha)................................................................................15 10: The Doheny Expedition............................................................................................................15 11: Fremont Culture Pterodactyl Petroglyph – Why It's Called Black Dragon Canyon................16 12: "The Buried Classic" From Ancient Greece, and the Roots of the Western World .... The Life of Apollonius of Tyana Philostratus {c. 220 AD}..........................................................................18 13: Ancient Dinosaur Art from Indonesian Islands; Kalimantan, Bali, Sumatra............................20 14: Historical Dinosaurs around the World....................................................................................22 15: Art of Ancient Thailand............................................................................................................24 16: Dinosaurs from Anglo-Saxon and other Records.....................................................................25 17: Vietnamese Warriors Astride Dinosaur?...................................................................................29 18: Dinosaur Petroglyphs at Wypatki National park, Arizona.......................................................30 19: The Aberdeen Bestiary and other Ancient “Science Sources”.................................................30 20: Chinese Dragon Fossils............................................................................................................31 21: Ancient Terra Cotta Depicts Dinosaur?–or “Ritual” Object?...................................................32 22: Ancient Terra Cotta Depicts Dinosaur?–or “Horned Toad”?....................................................34 23: Additional Dinosaur Representations in Ancient Art?..............................................................36 24: Ancient Hammered Copper Ornament Depicts Bat?–or “Baby Pterosaur”?...........................37 25: Ancient Chinese Sculpture Depicts Dinosaur – If They Allow You to See That Side.............39 26: Another Ancient Chinese Piece................................................................................................42 27: Ancient Chinese Sculpture Depicts Dinosaur/What is Depicted on Thai Vase?......................43 28: Thai Vase from 1400's Depicts Dinosaur or Seahorse?............................................................46 29: Pterosauria in Ancient Art of Cameroun...................................................................................47 30: An Ancient Stegosaur Depiction At Angkor Wat.....................................................................49 31: Toxodon Depicted on Pre-Columbian, Lambayeque (Peruvian) Whistling Bottle?................52 32: Ancient Mayan Pterosaur?........................................................................................................56 33: Rock Art of Texas Indians: Thunderbird?................................................................................57 34: Native American Rock Art: Thunderbird?................................................................................58 35: Pre-Columbian Dinosaur?........................................................................................................60 36: Egyptian Dinosaur-like Creature..............................................................................................60 37: Chinese Hadrosaur....................................................................................................................62 38: A Ceratopsian Depiction at an early 1800's Hindu Temple?....................................................63 39: Revisiting The Stones of Ica.....................................................................................................65 40: Pre-Columbian Pterosaur?........................................................................................................80