Norman D. Daly (August 9, 1911 - April 2, 2008), was an American artist who created the fictional Civilization of Llhuros along with hundreds of its artifacts, texts, and soundscapes.

[3] In 1942, Daly joined the Department of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he taught drawing, painting, materials and methods, and elements of design.

Daly became interested in the relationship of art to anthropology and archaeology, and this new approach led him to create the imaginary civilization of Llhuros.

Included are frescoes, architectural fragments, vessels, ritual objects, jewelry, games, a mosaic and musical and scientific instruments.

In 1972, the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell, under the direction of Thomas Leavitt, mounted the first exhibition of The Civilization of Llhuros.

[4] This combination of an invented archaeology together with skillful efforts to make the project appear to be actual history marks The Civilization of Llhuros as an exemplar of fictive art (also known as superfiction).

Llhuros experienced a renaissance beginning in 2017 when a sampling of objects was included in the Plurivers exhibition at La Panacée in Montpellier, France.