But we can go even further back, specifically to the third millennium BCE, moving slightly southeast. Fragment of the stele showing vultures eating corpses. Credit: Sting / Wikimedia Commons ...

One famous such example is the Stele of the Vultures, a monument comprised of several stone slabs that depict a martial scene. The University of Oxford describes stele as mixing elements of the ...

Vultures stalk death, and death stalks vultures. Think about the scavenger bird and images of disease and decay soon follow. The birds have a bad reputation – unjustifiably so, say ...