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During the Second Punic War, the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal led his forces to numerous victories. But did he really take war elephants across the Alps?

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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.

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The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

It would be the first hard evidence that elephants were used in battle by General Hannibal.