how did Hannibal cross the Alps? This is no ordinary question. It has been around, with no obvious answer, for the last 2,000 years. Hannibal was a Carthaginian general who decided to invade the Roman ...

In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...

Micheál Martin (a day later than scheduled because of some stormy weather in the Dáil) the man who many pundits once ...

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 ...

Aircraft fighter army professional occupation Map with Hannibal's route to Rome Modern map with the route of Hannibal crossing of the Alps. The map was derived via Google maps, imported as an image in ...

Crossing a border from one culture ... and is also the easiest of the Franco-Italian alpine passes – you may well be skiing in the steps of Hannibal’s elephants. The old town is not without its charms ...