For more than two millennia, the story of Hannibal marching war elephants across the Alps has captivated historians, artists and filmmakers. But the evidence for those animals has come only from ...

Researchers use modern models to estimate the energy demands of Hannibal's 218 BCE Alpine crossing, revealing elephants may ...

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 ...

A new analysis sheds light on the most likely route for the Carthaginian general's famous crossing of the Alps. The study, led by the University of Oxford and iDiv/Friedrich Schiller University Jena, ...

Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing "war elephants." Yet, no skeletal remains of these war elephants had ever been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephants are not exactly commonplace in the European landscape, so when archaeologists uncovered an elephant foot bone among the ...

Elephants head towards hay delivered by Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) Ranger Josphat Wangigi (not seen) at the Amboseli National Park as feed-aid for forage deprived herbivores hard hit by drought on ...

An elephant foot bone found by archaeologists digging in southern Spain may be evidence that a troop of war elephants stomped through ancient Europe. It would be the first concrete proof of the ...

Elephants head towards hay delivered by Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) Ranger Josphat Wangigi (not seen) at the Amboseli National Park as feed-aid for forage deprived herbivores hard hit by drought on ...

A herd of elephant pasture on a plain of the Maasai Mara National park in western Kenyan on August 15, 2008. The park is one of the most popular parks in the African continent. ROBERTO SCHMIDT Roberto ...