A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...

In Alps and Elephants, the first of several books that ... Tomas van Houtryve The First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) was fought over control of the strategic islands of Sicily and Corsica.

Credit: Cassell’s Illustrated Universal History, 1882/Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain Pausanias: The victorious general of Plataea who was starved to death The Battle of Plataea in 479 BC was the ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

The art of deception, as old as war itself, can garner astonishment when one side’s competence enables it to pull off an ...

A video from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park taken during an earthquake put complex elephant herd dynamics on display. By Jonathan Wolfe The 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook Southern California ...

A first-half strike from Patrik Gustavsson secured the victory for the War Elephants in the Group D opener of the qualifying tournament in front of a large crowd at Bangkok’s Rajamangala ...

“Fortnite” will launch its biggest Star Wars-themed season yet with the May 2 release of “Galactic Battle.” This update will include the popular fan-fiction character Darth Jar Ja ...

Bhubaneswar: To stop elephants from straying into human habitation, authorities of Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts here have decided to put up a concrete fence along an 8-km stretch ...