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First domestication of elephants

First domestication of elephants
Who
Asian Elephant, Elephas maximus
Where
Indus Valley
When
01 January 0001

The earliest known records of domesticated elephants, which belonged to the Asian elephant species (Elephas maximus), tell of tamed elephants being used as beasts of burden at least 4,000 years ago during the Indus Valley civilisation (of the present-day region of Pakistan/India).