Did the ancient Egyptians know of pygmy mammoths? Well, there is that tomb painting.

Tetrapod Zoology ^ | 19 Jan 2011 | Darren Naish

[Palter]

Not, to be confused with the Stegasaurus from Angkor Wat.

[Palter]

H. Thomas ping.

[econjack]

Of course there’s no evidence that the hubris of the Egyptians would ever represent themselves as being bigger than anything found in their environment, including a normal elephant.

[ken21]

more likely a proto-democrat.

[Joe 6-pack]

[Bringbackthedraft]

Not, to be confused with the Stegosaurus from Angkor Wat.....................Some other carnivorous dinosaur must have bitten off it’s spiked tail?

[ladyvet]

My thoughts too.

[Dunstan McShane]

If you're a professional and accredited zoologist,I think it's probably smarter, all other things being equal, not to base speculation about the predominance of certain species on a picture drawn by some guy.

If you're going to go with the "illustrative art as a substitute for field-work" thing, maybe there ought to be a lot more (and lot clearer) pictures.

Or maybe I'm just feeling especially cranky this morning.

[Palter]

Yes, that would be a unarmed Steg. Obviously, he was denied a gun permit.

[spetznaz]

Interesting. Ever heard of the Mkolele Mbembe of the Congo?

[Palter]

Sure, some believe the dino theory others think aquatic Rhino.

[Sloth]

Of course there’s no evidence that the hubris of the Egyptians would ever represent themselves as being bigger than anything found in their environment, including a normal elephant.

Well, there is a giraffe shown as larger-than-human in the same group of pictures.

[ladyvet]

It’s still a very small giraffe.

[Free Vulcan]

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[wendy1946]

There is reason to believe that a handful of real mammoths may have survived in the mid Atlantic region of the US until just prior to Europeans settling there.

"David Ingram, an English adventurer, was put ashore with 113 other men between Mexico and Florida in 1568, and he wandered for years in the American interior before making his way to the east coast of the American colonies. In his report to the state secretary of Queen Elizabeth, he described precisely and drew accurate pictures of elephants as well as bison and other animals he and his companions had observed during the journey. Ingram could not have known that some centuries later, elephant bones (mastodons and mammoth) would be discovered all over the continent. This account is not taken seriously, but it is a curious fact that 200 years later President Jefferson was informed by a delegation of Indian chiefs that hunting in the interior lands included animals described as elephants. It is a matter of record that President Jefferson asked Lewis and Clark to be on the alert for elephant herds during their exploration of the West" (Internet).

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

The giraffe isn’t very big and was probably paleoshopped by the artist. So was the elephant/mammoth.
Of more significance, perhaps, is that a single handler has it and another animal in one hand. If that’s supposed to be a bear, I’d say it came from the same region as the elephoth critter; and it wouldn’t be Malta.
Also, it could have been an infant, and the tusks drawn in to signify that its breed is the source of the tusks the handler is carrying. Seems unlikely they’d have brought a full-size to the party (”Get that thing outta here!”) in any case. What for? It’s the ivory that’s special, unless they were into breeding experiments with their own elephants. Which perhaps they were...but even then, you take a smaller specimen. Tusks drawn in for advertising purposes.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Correcting self...at http://rockartblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/tomb-of-rekhmire-dwarf-mammoth-in.html there’s a bigger close shot of the critter, appears he is held by a different human, so may not represent the same region as the (supposed) bear.
Best guess then, India and paleo-shopped stature.

[TheOldLady]

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