The locomotive plunges through tunnels in the Alps in less time than it required to Hannibal’s elephant train ... first animal transportation made a path over the Indian trails.

Uncover the wild beauty of Wolfsklamm Gorge in Stans, Tirol – a must-see in the Austrian Alps. Follow wooden walkways and 354 steps as they wind through a stunning canyon carved by the Stallenbach ...

It took him fifteen days to cross the Alps, perhaps via the Col du Clapier ... Macedon, whose king had unwisely contracted an alliance with Hannibal that did neither of them any good, was chastised ...

The Alps leave you breathless in every way imaginable ... weather once struck fear into those who had to cross them. Hannibal led his Carthaginian army and 37 elephants across rocky, icy heights ...

Charles Joseph Minard’s famous 1869 maps, the first tracing Hannibal’s path from Spain through France, across the Alps and into Italy in 218BC; the second tracing Napoleon’s doomed invasion ...

‘I love many of Turner’s later experiments with colour, but the painting that never ceases to send a tingle up my spine is his 1812 Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps. The army ...

Hannibal’s daring push across the Alps (imagined in an 1882 engraving ... there’s no clear consensus on whether Hasdrubal took the exact same path, so finding an elephant tapeworm wouldn ...

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 led his troops through the Alps in 218 BCE, catching the Romans off guard. What’s more, he brought a contingent of war elephants ready for battle. These elephants were trained to instil ...