Researchers identify two pathogens in the remains of soldiers in Napoleon's army. Napoleon’s withdrawal from Russia in 1812 ...

The study revealed that Napoleon's soldiers suffered from several infections, exacerbated by cold, hunger, and exhaustion, ...

The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the ...

After extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from the teeth of 13 soldiers they instead found evidence the men suffered from a ...

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...

A 2006 study involving DNA from 35 other soldiers from the same cemetery detected the pathogens behind typhus and trench ...

A new genetic analysis of teeth from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals hidden illnesses that plagued the French emperor's ...

In a modern context, these diseases are not typically life-threatening, but Napoleon’s army was in dire straits.

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée met its most devastating enemy—not the Russian army, but biology itself. As ...

The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the beginning of the end for his empire and personal dominance in Europe, with ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the most visited and celebrated cultural institutions in the world, became the scene of a daring daylight robbery that has stunned France and the global art ...

French investigators suspect that the Louvre robbers received confidential information about the museum’s security system ...