{"id":240,"date":"2018-04-11T13:19:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T17:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/?p=240"},"modified":"2018-04-11T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T17:19:41","slug":"hannibal-in-the-alps-secrets-of-the-dead-on-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/hannibal-in-the-alps-secrets-of-the-dead-on-pbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannibal in the Alps &#8211; Secrets of the Dead on PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Hannibal, one of history\u2019s most famous generals, achieved what the Romans thought to be impossible. With a vast army of 30,000 troops, 15,000 horses and 37 war elephants, he crossed the mighty Alps in only 16 days to launch an attack on Rome from the north. For more than 2,000 years, nobody has been able to prove which of the four possible routes Hannibal took across the Alps, and no physical evidence of Hannibal\u2019s army has ever been found\u2026until now. In Secrets of the Dead: Hannibal in the Alps, a team of experts \u2013 explorers, archaeologists, and scientists \u2013 combine state-of-the-art technology, ancient texts, and a recreation of the route itself to prove conclusively where Hannibal\u2019s army made it across the Alps \u2013 and exactly how and where he did it.\">Check this out!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PBS did an episode of Secrets of the Dead on Hannibal, a famous Roman general.<\/p>\n<p>PBS describes the features as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hannibal, one of history\u2019s most famous generals, achieved what the Romans thought to be impossible. With a vast army of 30,000 troops, 15,000 horses and 37 war elephants, he crossed the mighty Alps in only 16 days to launch an attack on Rome from the north. For more than 2,000 years, nobody has been able to prove which of the four possible routes Hannibal took across the Alps, and no physical evidence of Hannibal\u2019s army has ever been found\u2026until now. In\u00a0<em>Secrets of the Dead: Hannibal in the Alps<\/em>, a team of experts \u2013 explorers, archaeologists, and scientists \u2013 combine state-of-the-art technology, ancient texts, and a recreation of the route itself to prove conclusively where Hannibal\u2019s army made it across the Alps \u2013 and exactly how and where he did it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out!\u00a0 PBS did an episode of Secrets of the Dead on Hannibal, a famous Roman general. PBS describes the features as follows: &#8220;Hannibal, one of history\u2019s most famous generals, achieved what the Romans thought to be impossible. With&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9195240,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9195240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/amca-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}