In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s once-mighty army left Russia battered, frostbitten, and starving. The infamous retreat claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but until recently, no one could say ...

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The diamond-encrusted jewel, which the 19th-century French emperor wore on his hat, was lost along with other valuables as he ...

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A new genetic analysis of teeth from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals hidden illnesses that plagued the French emperor's soldiers during their disastrous 1812 retreat. As French general and ruler ...

Napoleon was a Frenchman of his time, which means he was interested in how science could do good–he just took it farther than most Kat Eschner During this week in 1943, a 26-year-old Kennedy and his ...

General Napoleon Bonaparte is remembered as a crusader, tyrant, and initiator of a series of wars. But one of his lesser-known offenses — abandoning a crew of scholars and scientists in Egypt — led to ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying the king’s body enabled his ascension to the realm of the gods. According to this belief, the preserved body, known as the Ach — a luminous spirit — was ...

Hollywood’s Ultra Hack returns to hackneyed European history. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is another of his lavishly produced movie epics with a TV-commercial mindset. As usual, Scott sells visually ...