Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, marching his war elephants over the snow-covered Alps to confront the Romans in 218BCE.

An elephant foot bone found by archaeologists digging in southern Spain may be evidence that a troop of war elephants stomped ...

Hannibal led the Second Punic War against Rome and became famous for his crossing of the Alps and the 16-year campaign which ...

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

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

A small elephant bone found in Spain may be the first physical evidence of Hannibal's legendary war elephants.

Hannibal marching his elephants over the Alps is one of history's most legendary moments, and now archaeologists have found a bone that proves it really happened. During the Second Punic War, the ...

A 2,200-year-old elephant bone found in Spain may finally prove Hannibal brought war elephants to the battlefield.

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

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

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Hannibal’s use of elephants during the Second Punic War is one of the most iconic images of ancient warfare, but evidence of these battle elephants ...

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 ...