Ancient bone found in Spain could be Hannibal's war elephants

It would be the first hard evidence that elephants were used in battle by General Hannibal.
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2,200-Year-Old Bone Unearthed In Spain May Be First Direct Evidence Of Hannibal's War Elephants

Everything we know about these famous war animals has come from textual sources, so this is a significant new find.
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The ancient world at war : a global history / edited by Philip de Souza

Introduction: the terrible tide of war / Philip de Souza -- War before history / R. Brian Ferguson -- Ancient Egyptian warfare / Ian Shaw and Daniel Boatright -- Ancient Near Eastern warfare / Nigel ...
Greek Reporter

The Lelantine War: Myth or the First Great Ancient Greek Coalition Conflict?

The Lelantine War may have been one of the only wars in ancient Greece to involve multiple cities, but did it really happen?
Ancient Origins

Ancient Bones Reveal Victory Rituals after Europe’s Earliest Wars

The study, published in Science Advances, analyzed 82 humans from the Alsace region (around 4300–4150 cal BC) and found statistically significant chemical differences between those treated “normally” ...
Ars Technica

A 2,000-year-old battle ended in fire, and a tree species never recovered

The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern China are the charred remains of an ancient war and the burning of a capital city, according to a recent study from researchers who ...
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A Baseball-sized Bone Found in Spain May Be the First Physical Proof of Hannibal’s Legendary War Elephants

Archaeologists excavating a site in Córdoba, Spain, have identified a small elephant bone in a layer dating to the era of the ...