Ancient bone may be first physical evidence of Hannibal’s ‘war machine’ elephants in Western Europe

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — 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. After discovering the ankle bone at the Colina de los Quemados archaeological site in