And you might be surprised to know that war elephants played ... replaced forests. In India, the process of training an ...

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

In South Asia the massive animals have a long history as weapons of war. The first use of elephants in battle dates from the 6th century BCE, and the Mahabhararta, the great Sanskrit epic of ancient ...

Ancient Indian art, such as sculptures at the Channakeshava Temple in Karnataka, illustrates the use of war elephants as part of a fourfold army, known as chaturanga bala, which included infantry ...

The author says, “The ancient Indian kingdom was tied to the forest by the institution of the war elephant”, a very important observation especially in the current focus on environment.

The matchup included tens of thousands of troops, thousands of cavalry and dozens of war ... elephants. In other ancient documents, "There were these ancient semi-mythical accounts of India ...

Over the past decade, archaeological excavations of ancient ports of trade have revealed ... by the Pharaoh Ptolemy II to bring African war elephants to Egypt. The city was one of the starting ...

An ancient map showing Thrace ... fourth century B.C., when Alexander the Great’s successors brought war elephants from India, the animals’ trumpeting threw horses into a frenzy.

In India, the process of training an elephant has changed little since ancient times ... The fearsome 6,000 war elephants of the Nanda Army led to mutiny among Alexander the Great’s battle ...