2,300-year-old Buddhist elephant statue from India is one of the oldest known

We see the stone-carved statue of an elephant with its trunk curved downward toward the ground. It is in a dirt-covered area of a grass field.

Archaeologists in eastern India have unearthed a statue of an elephant they think was carved about 2,300 years ago, when Buddhism was the main religion in the region . 

The statue is about 3 feet (1 meter) high and carved from rock in the same style as other Buddhist statues of elephants found across the state of Odisha.