Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

Hannibal’s March on Rome is the documentary of General Hannibal Barca set in the year 218 BC. It explores an iconic event in ancient history where Hannibal led his Carthaginian army on a dangerous ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient North Africa by classicist Professor Josephine Quinn and comedian Darren Harriott to learn ...

Hannibal Barca crossed the Alps, defeated Rome’s armies, and shook the ancient world with victories at Trebia, Trasimene, and ...

HANNIBAL: Rome’s Greatest Enemy. By Philip Freeman. Pegasus. 240 pages. $27.95. Hannibal Barca was an anomaly of the ancient world. A supreme strategist and tactician, he also was notable for forging ...

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One of the most pivotal battles in Western history, the Battle of Cannae, was fought 2,232 years ago to the year. The Battle of Cannae occurred on August 2, 216 BCE in southeast Italy between ...

NEW YORK: HISTORY has a new scripted mini-series in development, Hannibal (working title), which will be executive produced by Halle Berry. The mini will tell the story of Hannibal Barca and his ...

A scene from Hannibal vs Rome, which shows truth can be stranger than fiction If ever there was testimony to the homely that the truth is stranger than fiction, the story of Carthaginian General ...

This is Hannibal Barca fresh after beating the shit out of the Romans at the Battle of Cannae—one of Rome’s worst defeats. Hannibal has kicked my ass like that every night for a week. Photo: Creative ...

Ancient historians gave the name “Hannibalic” to the war between Carthage and Rome at the end of the third century B.C—known to us as the Second Punic War—to acknowledge that one man had set it in ...