How the Pope's Elephant Sparked the Reformation

In February 1962, just a few months before the opening of the Second Vatican Council, some workers were digging in a Vatican courtyard to work on an air conditioning system when they came across a peculiar find: very large animal bones.

At first, they thought they had discovered dinosaur bones! But scientific examination showed they weren’t dinosaur bones. Nonetheless they were still something very intriguing: elephant bones.

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