I am writing in response to Paolo Bernardini’s recent call for a public debate over the presence of the Napoleon death mask in Mugar Memorial Library (“Is Mugar the place for a tyrant’s death mask?” ...

Scientists recently discovered deadly bacteria in DNA from Napoleon's soldiers' teeth, revealing new causes of death during the catastrophic 1812 Russian retreat.

Napoleon’s withdrawal from Russia in 1812 was one of history’s most disastrous retreats. New research bolsters the theory that diseases made the calamitous situation even worse. Researchers in France ...

A 2006 study involving DNA from 35 other soldiers from the same cemetery detected the pathogens behind typhus and trench ...