Megalopolis, Greece
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Megalopoli is a town in the southwestern part of the regional unit of Arcadia, southern Greece. It is located on the same site as ancient Megalopolis. When it was founded in 371 BC, it was the first l
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Lignite mining near Megalopoli
Remains of the theatre
A silver triobol of the Arcadian League from ancient Megalopolis. The head of Zeus on the obverse, Pan seated on the reverse.
Straight-tusked elephant
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The straight-tusked elephant is an extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. One of the largest known elephant species, mature fully gr
Megalopolis, Greece
…conjectured in modern times to be those of Pleistocene fossil animals which are still often unearthed from the area today, such as those of the extinct straight-tusked elephant. These animal bones and lignite deposits come from sediments which were deposited around 900–150,000 years ago, when the Megalopolis area contained a…
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Model of a straight-tusked elephant
Skeletons of Palaeoloxodon falconeri a sheep-sized dwarf elephant species thought to have descended from the straight-tusked elephant native to Sicily and Malta