The Emperor and the Dodo
Jahangir's Curious Kingdom of Creatures
An Extraordinary Discovery
In 1958, a group of Soviet ornithologists stumbled across something extraordinary in the vaults of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg: a Mughal painting of a dodo.
The painting, dated to around 1610 was swiftly attributed to the master painter Ustad Mansur, and when it was unveiled at the International Ornith…
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