Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

The Black Death was a serious ... Others think that pneumonic plague was most serious because of the way it spread rapidly from human to human. In either case, death usually happened within ...

The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands ... beaked masks Why plague doctors wore those strange beaked masks Black Death discovery offers rare new look at plague catastrophe Black Death ...

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The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

A new study from a University of Nottingham archaeologist has revealed surprising insights into the city's medieval past, ...

The most notorious plague epidemic, the Black Death, devastated Europe ... changed the course of history. A laboratory report by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) of disease cases in England ...

Best known for causing the Black Death scare ... On display at the German Museum of Medical History in Ingolstadt is an authentic 16th Century CE, plague doctor mask, an eerie yet fascinating ...

In the 14th century, before treatment was available, bubonic plague killed 50 million people in Europe and became known as the "Black Death ... has a frightening history, but there is little ...

The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax ... biomedical disaster in European and possibly world history.’ A contemporary writer in Florence referred ...

The Black Death, the most devastating pandemic in recorded history, was a mix of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plague. It tore through Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 14th century ...