Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, marching his war elephants over the snow-covered Alps to confront the Romans in 218BCE.

The decline in Africa's population of forest elephants has had a direct impact on the decline of its ebony trees, a new study based in Cameroon now shows. A study published this August in the journal ...

A small elephant bone found in Spain may be the first physical evidence of Hannibal's legendary war elephants.

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 ...

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 ...