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 ...

A 2,200-year-old bone unearthed in Spain could be from one of Hannibal's war elephants used during the Second Punic War, according to a new study. The baseball-sized relic, found near the southern ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn knows the Olympic downhill course better than anyone. She’s won a record 12 World Cup races on the Olympia delle Tofane track — split evenly between six ...

At least one driver was seriously injured in a crash Thursday morning on Man o’ War Boulevard, according to the Lexington Police Department. The crash happened around 7:45 a.m., between Alumni Drive ...

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 ...

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WELCOME BACK IN KANSAS CITY. JUST FIVE MONTHS AWAY FROM AN EXPECTED 650,000 VISITORS COMING TO THE METRO FOR THE FIFA WORLD CUP. ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO NEED A PLACE TO STAY. AND THAT’S WHY ...

John Green teaches you, at long last, about the most exceptional bunch of empire-building nomads in the history of the world, the Mongols! How did the Mongols go from being a relatively small band of ...

The heat is officially for Netflix‘s Culinary Class Wars, as the streamer has renewed the cooking competition series for Season 3 with a new format. The third season of the South Korean show, hosted ...

A vision of ancient Carthage, attributed to the painter William Linton, c. 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art Around 310 B.C.E., Carthage was under siege by Agathocles of Syracuse and his army.

Pedestrians stroll by the cheek-by-jowl houses of the old company town of Scotia. The last time Mary Bullwinkel and her beloved little town were in the national media spotlight was not a happy period.