Elephants and kings : an environmental history /
Because of their enormous size, elephants have been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In the early civilisations - Egypt, Assyria and Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilisation, China - kings have used elephants in royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, and...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2015]
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