When Napoleon was infamously defeated at Waterloo in 1815, the conflict left a battlefield littered with thousands of corpses and the inevitable detritus of war. But what happened to all those ...

An earlier version of this article implied that Robin Schäfer said around 130,000 French and Allied soldiers died in battles around Waterloo. In fact, he was referring to a battle in Frankfurt ...

At the site of the Battle of Waterloo, archaeologists from the nonprofit Waterloo Uncovered have discovered a complete skeleton. The newly unearthed bones likely belong to a soldier who died ...

More than 200 years after Napoleon met defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the bones of soldiers killed on that famous battlefield continue to intrigue Belgian researchers and experts, who use them ...

Archaeologists and military veterans have uncovered a 'unique' clearance trench on the site of a field hospital on the Waterloo battlefield. Veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered is carrying ...

Waterloo by Charles Auguste Guillaume Steuben – thousands of men died during the battle (Picture: Getty) On June 18, 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, but not before up to ...

A new study examines the possible cause as to why no mass graves for the thousands of casualties from the Battle of Waterloo have ever been discovered. The Battle of Waterloo decided by (Arthur ...

The bones of the fallen English soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo were sold as fertilizer, a new study has suggested. The study, which was published June 17, nearly 207 years to the day after the ...

Wading through university archives, Pollard identified a bundle of Ker’s letters and a complete book he’d written about his experiences visiting Waterloo’s battlefield over and over again in ...

A pile of amputated limbs and the remains of several military horses have been excavated at the site of the Battle of Waterloo. The gruesome discovery was made at a farm in Belgium by Waterloo ...

Volunteers and experts from around the world have joined archaeologists hoping to make new discoveries during a week-long dig at Culloden battlefield. The excavation at the world-famous site near ...