Researchers discovered an elephant bone in Spain possibly linked to the Second Punic War, according to a January 2026 study. The bone, found at the Colina de los Quemados site in Cordoba, Spain, in ...

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 ...

Archaeologists working in southern Spain have identified what appears to be the first direct physical evidence of an elephant in a confirmed Punic-period archaeological layer on the Iberian Peninsula.

Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing "war elephants." Yet, no skeletal remains of these war elephants had ever been ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant mammals in the Punic Wars. By Franz Lidz A 2,200-year-old bone unearthed ...

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