But Rome’s enemies, particularly various Hellenistic kingdoms and the Carthaginians, did indeed use war elephants. So, how did they acquire and deploy them in battle – and how did the Romans ...

The Carthaginian general Hannibal famously followed up with 37 war elephants that he marched ... researched medieval depictions of elephants, publishing an artwork that shows dozens of weird ...

Elephants were the tanks of ancient Mediterranean warfare, commonly used for trampling and intimidating enemies. Yet there was only one battle in which ... in which war elephants have the rounded ...

In 331 B.C., the invading armies of Alexander the Great encountered the war elephants of the Persian Empire for the first time at the Battle of Gaugamela. The elephants terrified Alexander’s ...

The mystery of an ancient battle between two warring troops of ... thousands of cavalry and dozens of war elephants on each side. The elephants were the "ace in the hole," able to trample the ...

quicklist:2title: Elephants in Battle text: Armies in India, Persia and China all used elephants to wage war in ancient times. Alexander the Great famously used elephants during his own battles in ...