The griffin didn't come from Protoceratops?!

 Good argument, excellent argument maybe, that griffins/gryphons didn't come from the old fossils:

https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2016/04/why-protoceratops-almost-certainly.html

Gist of it is this: all the theories were based on history from like year 700 B.C. onwards, but there is this drawing of a griffin from 4000 B.C. Holy cow:

Their caption says: Line drawing of perhaps the oldest known image of a griffin, from Susa, 4th millennium BCE. From Frankfort (1937).

I guess the counterargument is that since those Protoceratops fossils are so common, somebody saw them 6000 years ago, too.