May 5th marks 200 years since the death of Napoleon Bonaparte: France's Emperor, military genius, generally revered as a national hero. But Clovis Etchiandas, a tour guide, won't be celebrating those ...

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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 ...

In the first act of Ridley Scott’s newest film, “Napoleon,” the French general does something strangely anti-historical: fire a cannon at the tip of the Great Pyramids. In the next scene, he stands on ...

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 ...