If you look at a map the route is very similar to the one that Hannibal took. So Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps was an epic feat of a hero and by accomplishing it, he wrote himself into ...

The mystery of Hannibal's route through the Alps may have finally been solved - by poo. The 1,000 mile march of the great African commander to the gates of Rome has been fiercely debated for ...

Speculation on the crossing place stretches back more than ... QUEEN’S DUNG BOFFINS GET TO BOTTOM OF HANNIBAL ALPS RIDDLE IN PIECE OF 2000-YEAR-OLD POO. (“Boffin,” Allen kindly explains ...

The famous crossing of the Alps occurred in 218 BC, a period when Carthage and Rome were competing for world dominance. Hannibal traversed the mountains–once thought uncrossable–with a force ...

But what was Hannibal ... Alps at Col de Traversette, on the border of France and Italy southeast of Grenoble. The surrounding terrain is incredibly rugged; even 22 centuries later, Google Maps ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For over 2,000 years, historians have argued over the route used by the Carthaginian ...

The famous crossing of the Alps occurred in 218 BC, a period when Carthage and Rome were competing for world dominance. Hannibal traversed the mountains, once thought uncrossable, with a force of ...

Carthaginian commander Hannibal famously marched a huge army of soldiers, horses, mules and elephants from Spain, through the Alps to Italy in 218 BC to attack the Romans at the start of the ...

This fresco by Jacopo Ripanda depicts Hannibal crossing the Alps in 218 B.C. New research claims to have located the site of the general's first major victory in Spain. Photo by DeAgostini / Getty ...

This route through the Alps was first suggested as Hannibal’s path by biologist Sir Gavin de Beer some 50 years ago. “The deposition," said Chris Allen of Queen’s University Belfast in a ...

The question of precisely where the historically acclaimed general Hannibal and his army crossed the Alps into Italy to defeat ... discovered — not in maps or letters, but in the geologic ...

But what was Hannibal ... Alps at Col de Traversette, on the border of France and Italy southeast of Grenoble. The surrounding terrain is incredibly rugged; even 22 centuries later, Google Maps ...