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Long Before Zeus and Leda: Natufians Crafted a 12,000-Year-Old Scene of a Goose Mating With a Woman
The famous myth of Zeus seducing Leda may dominate classical imagination, but the idea of human–bird unions turns out to be far older — and far more grounded in prehistoric reality. A newly analyzed fired-clay figurine from northern Israel shows that Natufian hunter-gatherers were modeling such entanglements 10 millennia before Greek poets put stylus to…