When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

As a manhunt continued on Monday for suspects in the Louvre Museum jewel heist, the Paris Prosecutor said she fears the ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

French authorities have arrested two men in relation to last week's major jewel heist at Paris' Louvre Museum.

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

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