"While [the bone] would not represent one of the mythical specimens Hannibal took across the Alps, it could potentially ...

Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, marching his war elephants over the snow-covered Alps to confront the Romans in 218BCE.

The Second Punic War was Rome’s most dangerous crisis, as Hannibal Barca invaded Italy and inflicted some of the worst defeats in Roman history. By crossing the Alps and destroying Roman armies at ...

Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant ...