“Ancient human fossils are exceedingly rare in India. To date, only a single human fossil has been discovered that might roughly coincide in age with the Pampore elephants,” he explains. “While the ...

Here we come to the central protagonist of Trautmann’s narrative—the war elephant. Serving as a key component of ancient ...

In the worlds of extinct elephant species and ancient humans ... were found in 2000 in Pampore in the Kashmir Valley, India, and date back to between 300,00 and 400,000 years ago.

India. The giant skull from a straight tusked elephantCredit: Steven Zhang A giant skull from a straight-tusked elephant known as the Palaeoloxodon was dug out from the quarry in 2000, followed by ...

History’s cruelest punishments exposed humanity’s darkest instincts. These brutal methods were designed to torture, terrify, ...

Flakes from the bones of the elephants have provided the earliest evidence of animal butchery in India, predating previous ... suggesting that ancient hominids worked the basalt in the Kashmir ...

Elephants, used extensively in ancient Indian battles, were key players in the region's military strategies. Even Alexander the Great was forced to halt his eastward expansion due to the ...

Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of animal butchery by humans in India. During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant ...