Everything we know about these famous war animals has come from textual sources, so this is a significant new find.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Underwater recovery off the Aegadian Islands in Sicily uncovered a Montefortino-style Roman war helmet. The helmet was likely part ...

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

A 2,200-year-old elephant bone found in Spain may finally prove Hannibal brought war elephants to the battlefield.

Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant ...

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 ...

The helmet, estimated to be about 2,265 years old, was found in the waters around the Aegadian Islands off the coast of Sicily, officials said. Alexandra Smielova Unsplash An extraordinarily ...

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 ...

The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict ...