It would be the first hard evidence that elephants were used in battle by General Hannibal.
"While [the bone] would not represent one of the mythical specimens Hannibal took across the Alps, it could potentially embody the first known relic − so sought after by European scholars of the Modern Age − of the animals used in the Punic Roman wars for the control of the Mediterranean," the scientists conclude in their paper.
— Source: BBC Environment (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr2xl1e41eo)
