The DNA test revealed that the bulk of my Irish roots trace back to Cork, Kerry, and Limerick. Interestingly, Dublin wasn't ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

TV personality Sandi Toksvig has been helping to unravel a 2,000-year-old murder mystery as part of a new TV series. The ...

However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens ...

The painting "Boadicea Haranguing the Britons" by John Opie (1761–1807), depicting the warrior queen Boudica of the Iron Age. (Public domain/Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — ...

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

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But ...

Scientists have found evidence of multiple infectious diseases that may have played key roles in the army’s catastrophic ...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...