Brianna Chesser: The weirdest one to me, besides Herodotus, is that there’s no evidence (yet) of a large army, including elephants, which would require a ton of food and gear, and leave a lot of trash and 💩, crossing the Alps.

Ancient history is hilarious because those fuckers were lying their asses off and now we’re just like “well we will never know for sure so let’s just accept the lies as mostly close enough to the truth.”

The weirdest one to me, besides Herodotus, is that there’s no evidence (yet) of a large army, including elephants, which would require a ton of food and gear, and leave a lot of trash and 💩, crossing the Alps.

You don’t take Hannibal crossing the Alps with elephants away from me.

The world would be so much better if Hannibal burned Rome to the ground and salted the earth

You have hope, Link. We don't know where Hannibal would actually have traveled, if he made the march. It's guesswork based on old names.

They carved tunnels in Alps and named them after him

Herodotus was long dead by Hannibal’s time.

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