In Alps and Elephants, the first of several books that the evolutionary embryologist wrote on Hannibal, he displayed something of the Kon-Tiki spirit with the claim that he’d personally ...

In an audacious manoeuvre, Hannibal led about 30,000 troops, 15,000 horses and 37 elephants across the Alps to challenge Roman power on home soil. It was very nearly a masterstroke: in a series of ...

After making his historic crossing of the Alps with elephants transporting supplies and troops, Hannibal marches on Rome in a war of revenge. During his advance, he captures Sylvia, the niece of ...

Mads Mikkelsen hilariously thought when he first got a script for Hannibal it was about ... who led an entire army including elephants across the Alps to attack the Roman Republic.