THE only copy of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's will has sold at auction for 357,000 euros ($507,000) - more than twice the expected price. The French buyer said on Wednesday he wanted to remain ...

Egypt has opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a massive new archaeological museum. It showcases over 100,000 artefacts spanning 7,000 years of history. The museum's biggest attraction is the full ...

A new genetic analysis of teeth from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals hidden illnesses that plagued the French emperor's soldiers during their disastrous 1812 retreat. As French general and ruler ...

Claims that Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, commissioned a 60,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the Reich Chancellery in Berlin in 1933 circulated online in late October 2025. The Reich ...

In one of history’s darkest contradictions, men of Jewish descent served in Hitler’s army even as their families were marked for extermination. The truth is as haunting as it is complex. Going gray ...

Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...

Archaeologists discovered a highly public Roman mound tomb in Bavaria, a rare find for the area. The somewhat flashy location of the tomb along a highly trafficked road showed the importance of the ...

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It was Hitler’s military headquarters on wheels. His mobile steel reinforced refuge. His moving apartment with his own personal servants, bodyguards, communications centre, with all necessities on ...