Qatar's jet to America is a reminder of how gifts have influenced relationships between nations. Lincoln turned down ...

Twenty of them, a mix of Indian and North African forest elephants, marched from Spain to Italy with Hannibal and his enormous army in 218. It took him fifteen days to cross the Alps, perhaps via the ...

Hannibal led his Carthaginian army and 37 elephants ... Finally, Alpine tourism boomed in the mid-19th century. The Alps featured as a stop on the Grand Tour, and recreational skiing gained ...

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 ...

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 ...

The destruction, dating back to the late 3rd century BCE, coincides with the period of the Second Punic War when Hannibal’s Carthaginian forces traversed the Pyrenees to engage the Romans. Dr. Oriol ...

For more than 2,000 years, nobody has been able to prove which of the four possible routes Hannibal took across the Alps, and no physical evidence of Hannibal’s army has ever been found…until now.