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

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.

Four thieves broke into the world's most-visited museum in broad daylight, stealing eight items worth €88m (£76m; $102m).

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

Where’s the loot is the question on everyone’s mind, as Parisian authorities made two arrests in the Louvre Museum heist over the weekend. After a week, two men have been detained and will be in ...

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

New research suggests that two surprise pathogens were among the diseases that laid waste to the emperor’s vaunted Grande ...

Teeth from 13 Grande Armée soldiers in a Vilnius grave give first genetic proof that infections, with famine and cold, helped cause the loss of 300,000 men during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia.

Two people were arrested on Saturday evening as France continued to investigate the audacious Louvre jewellery heist. he ...