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

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

The high road – closed in winter months – links France and Italy and is where Hannibal is said to have brought his elephants across the Alps in 218 BC. La Rosière also offers easy access to ...

Hannibal was a Carthaginian general who decided to invade the Roman republic in 218 BC. But he clearly wasn’t someone who liked to take the easy option. He decided to take his invading army not around ...

Another more far-fetched theory floated by one user suggests the cart could be from Hannibal Barca's march through the Alps in the time of the Roman Republic. Use of the Splügen Pass dates back ...

Winter landscapes have been a feature of art for hundreds of years—and while many focus on landscape alone, there are also some that allude to the historical context of their times, or portray ...

This great dog’s ancestors are said to have accompanied Hannibal on his war expeditions ... Regularly seen policing the Swiss Alps, they often measure 27 inches at the shoulder and can weigh as much ...

During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army. After a train is robbed of its payroll, an ...

It has however retained its heavy snowfalls and is also the easiest of the Franco-Italian alpine passes – you may well be skiing in the steps of Hannibal’s elephants ... But by 2010 the link across ...