Access to this vast complex of grand palaces, abundant gardens, and sacred pavilions was off limits to most of imperial China's people, who could only imagine the grandeur beyond the gates. Hall of ...

Joaquin Phoenix's Napoleon, director Ridley Scott's $200M historical epic that flopped at the box office, finds new life on ...

Just as the real Beethoven had an intense admiration for Napoleon Bonaparte, whom he considered a great revolutionary ...

A T SOTHEBY’S GENEVA this past week, a long-lost treasure of Napoleonic history inspired one of the most electrifying jewelry ...

This video examines whether Napoleon Bonaparte should be remembered as a military tyrant or a reformer. It explores his rise from revolutionary general to emperor, his sweeping legal and ...

Scientists say they’ve discovered traces of the deadly pathogens that ravaged Napoleon’s soldiers during his doomed 1812 ...

From its royal history to the many times the pearl was almost lost, here’s the story behind La Peregrina.

The diamond-encrusted jewel, which the 19th-century French emperor wore on his hat, was lost along with other valuables as he ...

A diamond brooch once belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte, reportedly lost at Waterloo, sold for 3.5 million Swiss francs (4.4 ...

The brooch, which Napoleon used as a hat ornament, was an heirloom of the Prussian Royal House of Hohenzollern for more than ...

Napoleon’s brooch led the auction of 65 royal and noble jewels, which achieved a “white glove” result—every lot sold—for a ...