Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ridley Scott's latest historic epic, Napoleon, is raising eyebrows from French historians — but should taking creative liberties ...

Not every marshal under Napoleon became a legend — but each played a role in shaping the Empire. In this episode, we uncover the stories of eight less-remembered Marshals, from Pérignon and Brune to ...

For a figure whose onscreen presence is nearly as old as cinema itself, it’s a weird twist of fate that the Napoleon movies that never materialized often overshadow the ones that did. Stanley ...

Defending his Napoleon from grumbles caused by early rumors of historical inaccuracy, director Ridley Scott snapped that “when I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you there?

The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying the king’s body enabled his ascension to the realm of the gods. According to this belief, the preserved body, known as the Ach — a luminous spirit — was ...

Ridley Scott’s latest epic, Napoleon, stormed the box office, raking in $78.8 million since its Nov. 22 theatrical release. Now some historians are accusing the director of stretching historical ...