Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence of paratyphoid and relapsing fever among Napoleon’s soldiers who retreated from Russia in 1812. Researchers at the Institut Pasteur have performed a genetic ...

Researchers identify two pathogens in the remains of soldiers in Napoleon's army. Napoleon’s withdrawal from Russia in 1812 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...