TV personality Sandi Toksvig has been helping to unravel a 2,000-year-old murder mystery as part of a new TV series. The ...

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But ...

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

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

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

"This has the sense of a body thrown into a pit, with hands potentially tied," archaeologist Miles Russell said.

The DNA test revealed that the bulk of my Irish roots trace back to Cork, Kerry, and Limerick. Interestingly, Dublin wasn't ...

Ancient DNA reveals Napoleon’s army was decimated by hidden fevers, not typhus, during the disastrous 1812 Russian invasion.

An area called the central Southern Cone in South America, which consists of a large part of Argentina, is known to be one of the last global regions to become inhabited by humans.

An anchor, basket handles, jars and other artifacts were found among the cargoes at the three sites, the oldest of which ...

When you hear it said that “Modern steel is disposable by design”, your ears perk up, as you just caught the unmistakable ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...