Ancient bone may prove legendary war elephant crossing of Alps

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Ancient bone may prove legendary war elephant crossing of Alps

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

It would be the first hard evidence that elephants were used in battle by General Hannibal.

(www.bbc.com)

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[ajcain@mathstodon.xyz]

@gutenberg_org Odd choice of language in the article.

E.g. "legendary"? And the article refers to "the mythical specimens Hannibal took across the Alps".

Hannibal's use of war elephants is attested by Polybius, who wrote a few decades later. While there were questions about the number of elephants and the route taken, I think there has never been serious doubt that he used them.

[baronwalschap@mastodon.nl]

@gutenberg_org No, that's not stated in the publication .

Further explanation in this article (in dutch, but Google Translate is happy to help).
https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/02/17/de-olifanten-van-hannibal/
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[gutenberg_org@mastodon.social]

@BaronWalschap perhaps BBC should be notified then…