The Black Death or the bubonic plague was the most fatal pandemic ever recorded in human history, causing an estimated 75-200 million deaths in Eurasia and North Africa. Caused by the bacterium ...

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

Whether this is true or not, it shows how long a shadow the Black Death casts over popular history, and how the events of 1348–9 still resonated in the twentieth century. The Black Death was far from ...

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

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As the Black Death swept across Europe, fear gave rise to desperation—and some believed salvation came through pain. Meet the ...

The idiom “dance till you drop” stands true both figuratively and literally when the French city of Strasbourg witnessed the Dancing Plague. The year was 1518, and just like a plague, this was ominous ...

Join author Vedran Mezei in Mlini for a free, immersive storytelling journey through the Black Death every Thursday evening until October 30 ...

Modern medicine has all but eradicated many of history’s most notorious medical plagues, such as the Black Death and smallpox ... taste of the chaos that a plague can inflict — even in ...

The village of Wissett near Halesworth in Suffolk has a long history, from a mention in the Domesday Book to the site of a new 103-acre solar farm.