Some 16 years earlier, in 218 B.C., Hannibal had brought his army, including his war elephants, across the Alps and had won several battles in Italy, even while Scipio, the younger of the two ...

Hannibal was a Carthaginian ... fully or exactly where he crossed the Alps. The best we have is the report of the Greek Roman historian Polybius, who a few years later wrote a detailed account of the ...

Unlike the previous two wars, which involved much maneuvering and pitched battles (the Second Punic War saw the Carthaginian general Hannibal crossing the Alps) the third was mostly a siege of ...

It's no surprise that there are so many The Far Side comics starring kangaroos - an animal with a built-in pocket that travels mostly by hopping is a concept tailormade to spark Gary Larson's ...

Unlike the previous two wars, which involved much maneuvering and pitched battles (the Second Punic War saw the Carthaginian general Hannibal crossing the Alps) the third was mostly a siege of ...

Hannibal Lecter is one of the most terrifying serial killers to hit the big screen. The fictional character was created by Thomas Harris and is featured throughout a series of novels--though most ...

A convoy of trucks was spotted at the Rafah border crossing on Sunday morning as the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel continues to hold. Palestinian health officials in Gaza reported that the ...

In 2024, Boss Fight Books released a book on Animal Crossing, written by game historian Kelsey Lewin, exploring how this all began. Below, as part of Polygon’s Culture Shock special issue ...

Three teenagers died after the car they were travelling in collided with a tree, an inquest has heard. Dafydd Huw Craven-Jones, 18, and Morgan Jones, 17, from Wrexham, North Wales, and 17-year-old ...