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

Genetic traces of Salmonella enterica and Borrelia recurrentis were identified in teeth from thirteen soldiers buried in a ...

At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest genetic techniques have identified two pathogens that may have contributed to some of the deaths ...

When Napoleon marched his Grand Army of 600,000 troops into Russia in 1812, he commanded one of the largest fighting forces ...

An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa ...

After extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from the teeth of 13 soldiers they instead found evidence the men suffered from a ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...