An elephant on the mid-12th-century Otranto cathedral mosaic, Italy #WorldElephantDay https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otranto,_cathedral,_mosaic_08.jpg …pic.twitter.com/kTWDvKLux2
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An elephant on the mid-12th-century Otranto cathedral mosaic, Italy #WorldElephantDay https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otranto,_cathedral,_mosaic_08.jpg …pic.twitter.com/kTWDvKLux2
An 11th-century Anglo-Saxon drawing of a not-particularly elephant-like elephant.... :) http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/04/how-the-camel-got-the-hump.html … #WorldElephantDaypic.twitter.com/UgS6JYOsQb
In contrast, here's Matthew Paris's 13th-century drawing of King Henry III's elephant in the royal menagerie; it was a gift from Louis IX of France in 1255 and lived in the Tower of London: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/05/the-elephant-at-the-tower.html …pic.twitter.com/RSI9ZIkoFg
Worth noting that there are also medieval elephant remains known from Chester, radiocarbon dated to AD 1290—1410:https://twitter.com/cwacmuseums/status/940295256339288064 …
See here for some possible elephants in Roman Britain too :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/738293517106225152 …
A Roman ivory hair pin depicting an elephant, found London(?): https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/746258 …pic.twitter.com/C5MBrvcWzv
Roman Republican denarius of Caesar featuring an elephant, 49–48 BC, found near Wragby, Lincolnshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/53514 …pic.twitter.com/cyxxk3y7CB
I am loving the anteater elephant
Lol! :)
YES!! It really is - The Periodic Table of Elephants.
Why is Horton Hears a Who depicted in 1250-1275?
What the hell happened in 1450! 


Thank you. That is a fantastic page. I really enjoyed going through the individual elephants. Shame that some of the links are dead, but quite a few of them are still up. :)
That's brilliant
I love the fact that they were once stripey 
I know it’s not a very academic viewpoint, but people were shit at drawing back then, weren’t they?
1275 looks like an anteater
ps: sorry! I just saw your link
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