Tom and Dominic charge into one of the most legendary military clashes of all time: the outbreak of the Second Punic War.

How Hannibal's Elephants Crossed the Alps. Clip: Season 17 Episode 2 | 2m 58s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Hannibal was determined to get his whole army - men and animals - across the ...

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.

Hannibal, regarded as one of the foremost military tacticians of the ancient world, cleverly placed his 25,000-strong Carthaginian army and 40 elephants in defensive positions on the bank of the ...

Hannibal’s travels were not without fatalities. Accounts differ, but it’s generally believed that he lost more than 10,000 men and possibly many more. Moreover, all but one of his elephants died.

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 ...

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

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 ...

It could be the first of Hannibal's elephants to be discovered. We can't know for sure, but it was certainly a sizeable beast," Rafael Martínez, a zoologist and assistant professor of prehistory ...

More than 2,200 years ago, Hannibal led the Carthaginian army — which included 37 elephants — over the Alps into Italy.Although Hannibal's rampage against the Roman Empire was eventually ...