During the Second Punic War, which lasted from 218 to 201 B.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army of 100,000 troops across the Alps. Included in his ranks were 40 war elephants, a ...

Hannibal seems to have received more elephants to continue the fight in the Italian peninsula after his rout of the Roman legions at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BCE.

Hannibal, born at Carthage in 247, was a decade older than Scipio. His childhood and adolescence were spent in Spain. His father, Hamilcar Barca, an experienced general and veteran of the first war ...

Ever since Hannibal, the boy-wonder general of ancient Carthage, performed the astonishing feat of leading 37 elephants and an army of some 45,000 over the Alps into northern Italy to attack Rome ...

In Alps and Elephants, the first of several books that the evolutionary embryologist wrote on Hannibal, he displayed something of the Kon-Tiki spirit with the claim that he’d personally ...

Mads Mikkelsen hilariously thought when he first got a script for Hannibal it was about Hannibal the Conqueror! The 59-year-old Danish star imagined he was being asked to star in a historical epic ...

Mystery elephants used by Hannibal to cross alps could help save their descendants Analysing the DNA of ancient elephants could help inform modern-day conservation efforts, researchers explained.

The fact is that the famous pachyderms that Hannibal Barca took with him in the crossing of the Alps were neither of these types but a third species now extinct: the North African elephant or ...

EXCLUSIVE: Now that the SAG-AFTRA strike is ending, why not come out with elephant-sized ambition? Netflix has attached Denzel Washington to play the ancient Carthaginian general Hannibal in an ...