May be not many people know that about 200,000 years ago in the site where it will be built Rome (not in a day! 😉) the Neanderthal Man already lived there together with many other animal species nowadays extinct or no more living in Europe, e.g. the Uro (a big bull extinct in the 17th century AD), hippopotames or elephants.
Here below some pics of remains of antique elephants (Elephas Antiquus) that lived along the Aniene river (the Roman “flumen Anio“, the second river of Rome). The photos were taken at the “Museo di Casal de’ Pazzi/Deposito Pleistocenico” (www.museocasaldepazzi.it) in the Roman quarter of Rebibbia.
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I didn’t know that, very interesting. Thank you very much for your page.
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