Ritual · c. 38,000 BCE

The Lion-Man

Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany

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Illustration · AI-generated: artistic, not documentary.

A figure with a lion's head and a human body, carved from mammoth ivory. It is one of the oldest known images of a being that exists only in the imagination.

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