A team of scientists led by Dr Thilo Gross of the University of Bristol has combined depictions of lions, wild dogs, elephants and other creatures from Egyptian antiquity with paleontological and archeological evidence to assemble a detailed record of the large-bodied mammals that lived and became extinct in Egypt over the past six millennia. The obverse and reverse surfaces of a 5,150-year-old siltstone ceremonial palette discovered at Hierakonpolis,...
