In 1812, French military general Napoleon Bonaparte controlled most of Europe. Even with all this power, though, when he went ...

French authorities have detained two of the suspected robbers believed to have stolen precious crown jewels from the Louvre ...

Researchers have uncovered microbial evidence in the remains of Napoleon’s soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. Genetic ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte led his Grand Army into Russia in 1812, he commanded the largest military force Europe had ever seen ...

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

France has been shaken by one of the most spectacular museum robberies in recent memory — a daylight Louvre heist that ...

Sequencing genomic material extracted from the teeth of 13 soldiers in Napoleon’s troops highlighted that more diseases than previously thought affected the army.

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have genetically analyzed the remains of former soldiers who retreated from Russia in ...

Scholars have debated precisely what kinds of diseases ravaged Napoleon’s troops. New DNA analysis of some soldiers’ remains ...

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

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