Among the globe’s great mountain ranges, the Alps are exceptional, not least because humans have inhabited them for longer, more densely, and in more economically productive ways than any other.

Hannibal marching his elephants over the Alps is one of history's most legendary moments, and now archaeologists have found a bone that proves it really happened. During the Second Punic War, the ...

The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lie in south-central Europe. The mountain range stretches approximately 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) in a crescent shape across ...