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

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Items signed by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Walt Disney, Napoleon Bonaparte and many more of history's ...

George Washington signed letter dated February 20, 1790, addressed to a state governor, possibly North Carolina state governor Alexander Martin. O ...

The story of Napoleon's catastrophic retreat from Russia in 1812 may be being rewritten thanks to advances in genetic ...

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

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early ...

With black phosphorus, physicists measure the full quantum metric tensor and unlock a new view of electrons in solids.

Using skin samples from people aged 16 to 91, the team confirmed the repeated stretching and releasing of skin in one ...

Flores is the same place where archaeologists discovered the short-statured Homo floresiensis – also known as the 'hobbit' – ...

A spell with the Royal Shakespeare Company followed, as did an Academy Award nomination for her role as Clara Dawes in Sons ...