It's not a sight you see every day: 100 life-size Indian elephant sculptures lining Santa Monica Boulevard. Their goal: to ...

War Elephants: The Indian war elephant spurred the creation of protected elephant forests (hastivana/gajavana), influencing ...

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 ...

In 1948, British neurologist Sir William Gowers suggested Ptolemy actually fought with the much smaller African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were more likely to submit to Indian ...

Carthaginians used war elephants against the Romans in the Battle of Zoma in 202 B.C., as seen in this 1890 painting by Henri-Paul Motte. A new genetic study sheds light on world’s only known ...

At the age of 21 I was one of the youngest officers in the Indian Engineers, and I ended up with 400 Indian engineers under my command, I wouldn’t have got that in the British Army.

At the age of 21 I was one of the youngest officers in the Indian Engineers, and I ended up with 400 Indian engineers under my command, I wouldn’t have got that in the British Army.