Allen and a team led by Bill Mahaney of Toronto’s York University believe that Hannibal and his troops crossed the Alps at Col de Traversette ... later, Google Maps recommends that a traveler ...

Clues to Hannibal's secret military route were recently discovered — not in maps or letters ... 2,000-year-old question about the general's Alps route confronted them in the shape of a mire ...

Irish scientists are among those who think they have uncovered the route Hannibal took his army through when crossing the Alps in the Second ... a wonderful datavis map of 8,000 known battles ...

One of the most famous military campaigns of all time is the crossing of the Alps by Hannibal more than 2,200 ... Col de la Traversette (a simple map is available on The Telegraph) was first ...

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 ...

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 ...

He was delighted last year when the Belfast Telegraph headlined a front-page feature about his research team: QUEEN’S DUNG BOFFINS GET TO BOTTOM OF HANNIBAL ALPS RIDDLE IN PIECE OF 2000-YEAR-OLD ...

Follow a team of experts as they solve the enduring mystery of exactly where Hannibal and his troops crossed the Alps to launch a surprise attack on Rome. Hannibal, one of history’s most famous ...

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 ...

Hannibal, the Commander-in-Chief of the Carthaginian army, famously led 30,000 men across the Alps to invade Italia, bringing the Roman army to its knees during the Second Punic War (218-201 BC).

Allen and a team led by Bill Mahaney of Toronto’s York University believe that Hannibal and his troops crossed the Alps at Col de Traversette ... later, Google Maps recommends that a traveler ...