| Unearthing The Man-Eaters of Tsavo: The True Story of The Lions' Den Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Field Museum of Natural History David Kuehn, Discovering Archaeology The Man-eaters Den of Tsavo was first discovered 1898 by Col. John H. Patterson and his assistants Mahina and Moota. Col. Patterson had been commissioned by the Imperial British East African Company to supervise the construction of a railway bridge across the Tsavo River. This cave was recently made famous in a motion picture The Ghost and the Darkness (Paramount Pictures 1995). In the motion picture, starring Val Kilmer as Patterson, the cave is ominous looking, littered with human skulls and bones. The real man-eaters cave is a small cave that one could very easily pass without noticing and would have remained unknown save for the passage in Col. Patterson’s autobiographical book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures. continue>> |
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