Mystery of Hannibal's Alpine march solved? Scientists calculate how 46,000 men and 37 elephants could have made military history's greatest journey

Wiliam Hunter, Daily Mail (U.K), July 6, 2026

Scientists may have finally solved the 2,200-year-old mystery of Hannibal's legendary Alpine crossing. In 218 BC, the young Carthaginian general marched 40,000 men, 7,000 horses, and 37 war elephants across the Alps into Italy to wage war against Rome. For hundreds of years, historians have struggled to pin down the exact route of military history's greatest journey.

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