A splendid fully intact 3000-year-old iron lion has been uncovered by archaeologists leading the University of Toronto's Tayinat Archaeological Project in southeastern Turkey. The lion is sitting, claws out as befits a guard on a city gateway. The gate provided access to the citadel of Kunulua, capital of the Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Patina (ca. 950-725 BC). Among the U of T archaeologists who uncovered the lion are Jennifer Jackson and Lynn Welton who took these pictures.
