During the Second Punic War, the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal led his forces to numerous victories. But did he really take war elephants across the Alps?

Long before gunpowder and mechanised armies transformed warfare, some of the most decisive battles in history were unexpectedly shaped by elephants. Towering over infantry and cavalry alike, war ...

Archaeologists working in southern Spain have identified what appears to be the first direct physical evidence of an elephant in a confirmed Punic-period archaeological layer on the Iberian Peninsula.

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman ...

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