Transportation for a Sultan
I always worry about how animals are treated, and I feel uncomfortable recognizing how many animals spend their days walking back and forth for our amusement, but these elephants and their camel companions didn't appear too disgruntled.
* side fact: Elephants appear to mourn the death of other elephants. When they find elephant bones on their journeys in Africa, they stop, examine the bones and walk around them for hours. Most other animals being observed have never taken notice in this way.
The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more 
