Spain’s 2,200-Year-Old Elephant Bone Sparks Possible Link to Hannibal’s War Elephants
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Archaeologists in Córdoba, Spain, have unearthed a 2,200-year-old elephant bone dating to Hannibal’s era, likely from an African elephant used in his Second Punic War; if ancient-DNA analysis confirms the species, it could be the first direct physical link to Hannibal’s war elephants in Iberia, though the bone alone is not definitive proof.
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