The Louvre has transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France after an audacious daylight heist last week ...

The findings fit with historical descriptions of the symptoms experienced by soldiers in Napoleon’s army, such as fever and ...

New DNA evidence from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals Napoleon's retreating Grand Armée was decimated by paratyphoid and ...

In the summer of 1812, the legendary French general Napoleon Bonaparte led an army about half a million strong to invade Russia. The Russians retreated but burned the countryside as they withdrew, ...

When a group of French researchers set out to answer which infectious diseases helped fell the troops, they did not have much ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have genetically analyzed the remains of former soldiers who retreated from Russia in 1812.

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

Researchers uncover two previously undetected bacteria in teeth from Napoleon’s soldiers, revealing a possible combination of ...

In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia with one of the largest armies in history—the “Grande Armée” of about half a ...