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

Elephants are not exactly commonplace in the European landscape, so when archaeologists uncovered an elephant foot bone among the rubble of an Iron Age dig in Spain, they knew it could be something ...

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 ...

In March 2020, construction crews in Córdoba, Spain, were preparing the ground for an expansion of the Cordoba Provincial Hospital's medical consulting room. What they uncovered was anything but ...