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First Solid Evidence of Hannibal's Infamous War Elephants Discovered in Spain


Elephants are not exactly commonplace in the European landscape, so when archaeologists uncovered an elephant foot bone among the rubble of an Iron Age dig in Spain, they knew it could be something special.

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