Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Did The Egyptians Trade In Pygmy Mammoths

Palaeozoologist Darren Naish does one of his terrific Cryptozoology posts on the small, hairy, elephanty thingy in the tomb-painting above. Was it a pygmy mammoth from Wrangel Island, one of late surviving-dwarf species from around the Mediterranean, or just bad drawing?