Dinosaurs never existed. Why Dinosaurs are a Hoax by Jeremy James The ancient Romans built roads across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa during which time they excavated enormous quantities of sedimentary rock. They also built extensive ramparts, stadiums, amphitheatres, aqueducts and other structures of considerable size, all of which involved extracting large amounts of soil and rubble from the earth. But never once did they record the discovery of a dinosaur fossil, or the preserved remains of an animal skeleton similar to a 'dinosaur' or giant reptile. The Greeks, Persians and Egyptians also built great cities and, in doing so, quarried millions of tons of sedimentary stone and displaced great quantities of sub-soil. Yet, these advanced civilisations left no record of dinosaur finds. Both Aristotle and Pliny the Elder, men of great intellectual ability, made a detailed study of the natural world and were constantly enquiring after fresh information about foreign lands from travellers and explorers. Both took a great interest in unusual phenomena – botanical, zoological, geological, celestial, and so forth – that might shed further light on their scientific enquiries. Had any dinosaur skeletons been found anywhere in the known world at that time, these men would have been keenly interested in the details. But their extant writings make no reference to large animal fossils. Dinosaurs were only 'discovered' in the 19th century In fact, until the mid-19th century, the possible existence at some time in history of giant dinosaur-like creatures had not even been suggested. Myths and legends abounded, of course, but the exotic creatures depicted in these stories were, in general, exaggerated hybrids of existing fauna. From time to time a new species was discovered and stories about a fabulous new land would circulate, but in the entire literature of ancient civilizations we find no consistent and discernible reference to creatures ……