For centuries, Hannibal's elephants were legend - now a rare bone found in Spain may offer real proof.

"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.

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that ...

In his role as general, Hannibal led the Carthaginians' battle against the Roman Republic in the three Punic Wars, which ...

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

The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict ...

Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing "war elephants." Yet, no skeletal remains of these war elephants had ever been ...

Archaeologists excavating a site in Córdoba, Spain, have identified a small elephant bone in a layer dating to the era of the ...

Archaeologists working near Seville unearthed a fossilized ivory fragment and a bronze harness fitting and they've found a bone that could be from Hannibal’s war elephant.

Everything we know about these famous war animals has come from textual sources, so this is a significant new find.