New research suggests war elephants helped determine Hannibal's route across the Alps—and survived it better than soldiers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mysterious bone was unearthed in 2019 at the site of an ancient fortified village near the southern Spanish city of Córdoba. | ...

Hannibal marching his elephants over the Alps is one of history's most legendary moments, and now archaeologists have found a bone that proves it really happened. During the Second Punic War, the ...

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 in ...

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 ...