Re: Ishtar Gate (was: More than we wanted to hear on Dragons)

["Eric, Diane, Alex and Caroline Winter" <winter@clark.net>]

>Some cryptozoologists have seriously suggested that the "dragons" (or
>sirrush) on the Ishtar Gate really do represent living dinosaurs
>(identifying them with such creatures as the African chipekwe or
>mkole-mbembe).  Please note that I do NOT subscribe to this view (except,
>perhaps, late at night sometimes...) but anyone curious to read about it can
>check out Willy Ley's chapter on the subject in "The Lungfish and the
>Unicorn", or pp. 479 et. seq. in Bernard Heuvelmans' "On the Track of
>Unknown Animals".  I believe L. Sprague de Camp once wrote a sci-fi novel on
>the subject, called "The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate".

Ron and others,

    L.S. de Camp did indeed write "The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate", but there
wasn't really any sci-fi aspect to it - more of a historical novel. Good
book, though. It recreates the politics (and executions) of the era quite well.

hlv,b
eric
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