Toussaint Louverture was born a slave. He defeated Napoleon and liberated a nation. This is his story. Economy shrank in ...

Pope Francis’ tomb is made of Ligurian (Italian) marble with the sole inscription “FRANCISCUS” and a reproduction of his ...

They needed a prison for the most dangerous man in the World. Napoleon had seized supreme power in France. He’d marched his ...

For example, many people believe that King Tutankhamun's tomb contained a curse ... Maybe you overheard someone talking about having a "Napoleon Complex" and felt compelled to step in and let ...

The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a paean to the renowned Parisian cemetery, Père Lachaise. There, 10,000 visitors a day seek ...

Several thousand attendees rallied outside the Invalides dome, home to Napoleon's tomb, to “save democracy”, as many supporters of the far-right party told Euractiv. “I won’t give in ...

Egyptology, the study of Ancient Egypt, is an area of research that was once closed to women. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a few women used their wealth to leave their mark on the field.

Author Oscar Wilde's gravesite is a big draw, in part because of the castrated funerary statue of a flying sphinx that adorns his tomb ... a system codified by Napoleon I in 1804.