Alps

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Just over a year after the unveiling of the "Frankfurt Silver Inscription" -- the oldest known Christian written testimony north of the Alps -- attention is once again turning to this ancient site.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Number two: the Roman historian Livy’s book about the Second Punic War, with Rome against the invading North African armies from Carthage and Hannibal’s war elephants crossing the Alps.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

"Climate change has long been a reality in the Alps, and we are experiencing its consequences... right now," Nicole Slupetzky, Vice-President of the Austrian Alpine Club said.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

But there is uncertainty over whether the discipline will feature at the 2030 Games in the French Alps.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

In fact, when I was away in the Alps he had spent a week trying to prove experimentally that in water solutions there were attractive forces between adenine and thymine, and between guanine and cytosine.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson