The tunnels are lined with carefully arranged skulls and bones, with plaques bearing inscriptions about life and death.

Snapping a photo at the Eiffel Tower might be the ultimate goal for many tourists, but there's so much more to see in the ...

Victoria is Timothy's wife and she's played by Parker Posey. You'll of course best know Parker from her roles in Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, You've Got Mail, Scream 3, and The Staircase, which she ...

Jacob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and ...

With access to a unique archive of personal letters, this documentary brings the love story of Napoleon to life. The unpublished love letters Napoleon wrote to Josephine shed new light on Napoleon ...

As a matter of fact, Napoleon was not the last emperor who united Europe; it was someone whose name is no longer uttered by gentle folks. They were probably waiting for the first opportunity since ...

Tensions flare as Russian President Vladimir Putin mocked Emmanuel Macron’s nuclear shield proposal for Europe, warning that some people forget how Napoleon’s reign ended. This came after Macron ...

In an apparent jab at France, Russian President Vladimir Putin said later: "There are still people who want to return to the times of Napoleon, forgetting how it ended." French Emperor Napoleon ...

The liberal hopes of establishing an enduring democratic regime were soon frustrated. In 1848 Louis-Napoleon (a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte) was elected president with a monarchist majority in ...

The British Museum houses an incredible collection of artefacts from Ancient Egypt, from the famed Rosetta Stone to an impressive collection of mummies.