The new findings not only give a clearer picture of a significant historical event, but they highlight how technology has ...

In the summer of 1812, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led approximately 500,000 soldiers on a campaign to conquer Russia ...

The robbery at the Louvre left behind more than broken glass. It battered the pride of a nation that is increasingly glum ...

Researchers who analyzed DNA from the teeth of soldiers who died during the retreat from Moscow say they have identified two ...

Ancient DNA reveals Napoleon’s army was decimated by hidden fevers, not typhus, during the disastrous 1812 Russian invasion.

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French ...

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

Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added ...

DNA from Napoleonic soldiers’ teeth uncovered two fever-causing bacteria that may have worsened the army’s fatal retreat from Russia.

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