The Trafalgar Square of 100, 000 years ago
When lions really crouched where Nelson now stands: the Trafalgar Square of 100, 000 years ago, its flora and fauna and interglacial landscape. In the forreground is a streight-tusked elephant, a rose chafer beetle and three hippopotamuses wallowing in water amongst water lilies, water chestnuts, sedges and red-mace. Near the water edge a wild ox. In the backgound some lions and lionesses and red and fallow deer
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11053394
Media ID
46094973
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6697px x 4735px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Neave Parker in The Illustrated London News', 14th June 1958, pp. 1012-1013
