7,000-Year-Old REPTILIAN Ubaid Statuettes of Mesopotamia | Ancient Architects

I first came across these bizarre-looking ancient statuettes in the British museum, terracotta figurines with a slender human body, sometimes with a suckling child, sometimes holding a staff or sceptre and sometimes with their hands on their abdomens, but they all had this bizarre reptilian elongated head. These figurines generally date to the 5th millennium BC, created by the Ubaid Culture of Mesopotamia and, of course, they have been put forward as evidence for ancient aliens. Their distinctive ‘coffee-bean’ eyes and elongated heads is why they are often referred to as ‘lizard figurines’. Bitumen was also used to show hair, crown or headdress and the decoration we see on the various examples may represent tattoos or jewellery.