Elephants in Afghanistan: Surveying the history of a pachyderm cultural frontier
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
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Elephants (pil in Pashto and fil in Dari) are not indigenous to Afghanistan. However, they have had a significant presence in and impact on the country. The first of them seem to have arrived in 305 BC when an Indian ruler sent 500 war elephants to the Hellenistic empire, which then stretched across western Asia, in exchange for […]
Context and Culture
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