European archaeologists found a small clay head with suspiciously “reptilian” facial features at the site. The head also has an oddly elongated shape, almost like the skulls of ancient elongated heads found around the world.
The head was discovered at the Bahra 1 site in Kuwait, which is one of the oldest settlements on the Arabian Peninsula, existing approximately from 5500 to 4900 BC. This makes the head about 7,000 years old.
According to archaeologists, similar “reptilian” figurines have been found in ancient Mesopotamia, but this is the first such discovery in Kuwait and the Persian Gulf region.
However, it is believed that this “reptilian” head belongs to the same culture of Ubaid, which is responsible for creating similar figurines in ancient Sumer.
At some point, these Ubaid tribes may have accidentally “popped over” into the Persian Gulf area. For more details on the “reptilian” figurines found in the village of Tell el-Ubaid (now in Iraq), you can read here.
The figurines of “human-reptiles” from the Ubaid Sumerian culture still spark debates among scholars as to who these small “lizard-headed” statues represented and what role they played in ancient society.
Some of them were found in tombs, but the recently discovered clay head was found in a “regular domestic site.”
Previously, ancient skeletons were excavated at the same location, and some of the skulls had elongated shapes. Were they perhaps imitating these lizard-like creatures, considering them gods?
