An elephant with prominent tusks, painted in white, draws the attention of visitors first at the rock art site at Pathimalai in Kumittipathi, a village around 30 km from Coimbatore city.

The discovery of rock art dated to between 1821 and 1835 adds ... the creatures as “great monstrous brutes, exceeding the elephant or hippopotamus in bulk” as the template.

An archaeologist has uncovered a 200-year-old rock painting that ... exceeding the elephant or hippopotamus in bulk,' he said. Together, the painting and nearby fossils 'suggest a case of ...