The earliest records i can find about Dinosaur discoveries is in the mid 1600's, but surely the Romans must of found a few examples while they were digging and building all over Europe!?
2007-07-22 00:58:56 · 13 answers · asked by Newt 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
They probably did but assumed they were the bones of long dead mythical monsters....
2007-07-22 01:00:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know about the Romans, but the Greeks did for sure. skeletons of dinosaurs have been found buried under temples and holly places. they probably thought they were gods or something. the mythical Griffin is thought to come from a certain dinosaur that is very different from the image of the Griffin, the bones that look like a wing are actually the ears of the real live creature. so they could have easily made a mistake. most ancient myths are inspired by real living things.
if u open the link, scroll down to "Nature of griffins"
2007-07-22 09:13:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nevermind just the Roman, the ancient greeks, Egyptians, Mayans, all of whom were builders.
More than likely older civilizations like the Romans did find dinasaur bones but didn't recognize them. In Asia there are records of found "dragon" bones which they used for medecine, by grounding the bones up. Those bones are now long gone.
There has been a lot of documentation that the mythological dragons are actually dinosaurs. The theory is, in places that are rich with dragon stories, people actually found dinosaur bones.
2007-07-22 08:10:14 · answer #3 · answered by lilykdesign 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure, but it's likely they were known long before the 1600's. It is assumed that most dragon legends were based on discoveries of dinosaur bones.
2007-07-22 08:01:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think archaeology was quite the Romans chief interest.They liked war and colonisation to add to the wealth of their Empire.
Interest in Dinosaurs was non existent in their thought process.
2007-07-22 18:10:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they along with the ancent greeks called them bones of giants. They did not know there were not bones of giant men or mythical monsters such as cyclops, hydra, sythian's, etc. as texts such as Homer's Oddesy calls them.
2007-07-22 12:48:32 · answer #6 · answered by opinionator 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May well have done but had no idea what they were....It was only really in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that they began to be recognised for what they were and began to be studied.
2007-07-22 08:05:18 · answer #7 · answered by Knownow't 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably where the dragon myths came from.
2007-07-22 08:11:19 · answer #8 · answered by spudfarmer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May be
2007-07-22 08:01:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if i'm not mistaken, pliny the elder wrote about them in his Natural History.
2007-07-22 08:48:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋