During the Ice Age, the smallish but big-eared Atlas elephants roamed all over North Africa when the Sahara was green, then retreated to the Atlas mountains when the Ice Age ended, where a thousand years later, Hannibal the Carthaginian captured some of those Atlas elephants for his invasion of Italy. Plato in his Atlantis story spoke of the elephants prolific in ice age southern Spain, see how this all ties together by clicking on Page at right Mystery Atlantis Unmasked.
