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Unicorns are found in many stories and myths from different parts of the world, especially China and India.l
2,400 years ago, Ctesias, a Greek physician, wrote about an animal that lived in India. The animal is said to have a blue eyes, a white body, and one horn on its head.l
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Originally, people thought that unicorns had wispy beards like goats.l
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A depiction of a unicorn was found in France's Lascaux Caves, dating as far back as 15,000 BCE. However this unicorn has two horns.
In Western literature the earliest mention of a unicorn appears in the work of Ctesias from the 5th century BCE. He described the unicorn as having a purple head, white body, multi-colored (red, black, and white) horn, and blue eyes.l
Marco Polo encountered 'unicorns' on his travels. He described them as being very ugly and not looking anything like a unicorn - he had really seen rhinoceroses.l
Julius Caesar once gave a description of a unicorn he had seen, and many other famous people throughout history have also made such claims.l
The unicorn horn was once worth a lot of money. German merchants even sold a unicorn 'horn' to the pope for an astronomical amount of money in 1560.l
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