A magisterial history of one of the worst ever pandemics focuses on the individuals caught up in the chaos ...

Scientists believe they have finally uncovered what triggered the deadly plague that wiped out over half the medieval population of Europe. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz ...

In the very heart of the ancient lands of Eurasia, a major scientific discovery has shed new light on one of the oldest and most lethal diseases in hu.

The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans within just a few years—may have been aided in its devastation by an unknown volcanic eruption. Martin ...

The Black Death, which happened between 1347 and 1352 in Europe, was a catastrophic demographic contraction that caused an ...

For centuries, the prevailing explanation of how the Black Death entered medieval Europe was a simple narrative of biological warfare. During a siege of Caffa, a Genoa-controlled port city on the ...

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A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so quickly. The plague known as the Black Death arrived in southern Europe in ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation of the Black Death in Europe. Researchers from ...

In the middle of the 7th century, a plague swept through the walled city of Jerash, in what is now modern-day Jordan. Ceramicists abandoned their workshops under the Hippodrome, leaving unfired ...