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 ...

If you've heard of General Hannibal (247-183 BCE), you're probably thinking of the guy who rode several elephants into Italy, ...

Yet Hannibal didn’t lose a single elephant.” A first glimpse of the Alps (here, the Traversette pass) was sobering for the soldiers marching with Hannibal: “The dreadful vision was now ...

Cannae made Hannibal more than just another name in the endless list of Rome’s enemies, but the elephants helped too. Twenty of them, a mix of Indian and North African forest elephants, marched from ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When Scipio defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202 BC, he did so in a much simpler and cleaner manner: by ordering his legion’s maniples to move aside to let the charging elephants pass through. Sixty-two ...