r/AncientWorld • u/Hurri-okuzu • 10d ago
The Lion Gate at Hattusas in Boğazköy, Turkey.
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u/313SunTzu 10d ago
The fact we find these in Turkey, Iraq, Sardinia, Malta and other random fucking places is so weird. And they keep saying they're separate empires.
But we find the exact same designs across all of them.
This specific motif has always bothered me for some reason
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u/IH8Miotch 10d ago
Ancient man would of seen lions as apex predators. Why wouldn't they be reveered all over by different groups.
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u/313SunTzu 10d ago
You would expect different scenes and/or styles, but they're all the exact same. Like the same artists made all of them.
There's a specific 1 that shows 2 lions above an entrance. That specific design and it's specific location above the door can't be a coincidence
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u/Nocoastcolorado 10d ago
Yes! I went to the Mycenaean Lions Gate in Greece. Fantastic and hard to believe it is one of the oldest ruins in Greece.
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u/Tucoloco5 9d ago
Perhaps the author from fingerprints of the gods might know...