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

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

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French ...

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, ...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens ...

One of the first events to signal the collapse of Napoleon's reign was his crushing defeat after an invasion of Russia in ...

However, new research by scientists working at the Institut Pasteur’s Microbial Paleogenomics Unit finds two previously ...

According to a study conducted by the U.S. Army, a gene related to serotonin could increase the resilience of soldiers under ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte led his Grand Army into Russia in 1812, he commanded the largest military force Europe had ever seen ...

New DNA evidence from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals Napoleon's retreating Grand Armée was decimated by paratyphoid and relapsing fevers in 1812. Microscopic pathogens, likely spread through ...