Pliny the Elder claims to have seen a dead Centaur preserved in honey. It was being transported to Rome from Arabia via Egypt during the reign of Emperor Claudius. Phlegon of Tralles saw it about sixty years later and wrote that it had a fierce face and hairy arms and fingers. Its human torso merged smoothly with its horse’s body, and its hooves were firm. The entire body had turned dark brown. Obviously, there is a possibility that this entity was really a 'gaff' - a taxidermied fake made from the body of a horse and the torso of a human or monkey.
Source: ‘Mysterious Creatures’ by George Eberhart
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