Unicorn
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The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.
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A Virgin with a Unicorn, fresco by Domenichino, c. 1604–1605 (Palazzo Farnese, Rome)
Indus stamp seal and modern impression; unicorn and incense burner or manger, 2600–1900 BC
Winged bull, perhaps perceived as a unicorn, in the Palace of Darius in Susa, Iran
Re'em
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A re'em, also reëm, is an animal mentioned nine times in the Hebrew Bible. It has been translated as "unicorn" in the Latin Vulgate, King James Version, and in some Christian Bible translations as "or
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…in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian, and Cosmas Indicopleustes. Some versions of re'em, a word appearing in the Hebrew Bible (in, e.g., Psalm 92:11 and Deuteronomy 33:17), are rendered as unicorn. The unicorn continues to hold a place in…
Detail of a former floor mosaic dating from year 1213, Basilica of San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna.
Oryx in Yotvata Hai-Bar Nature Reserve in Israel.