By the 15th century, Arabic and later European historians interpreted Ibn al-Wardi’s story as a fact-based parable, with ...

The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

C enturies before questionable COVID-19 information began rippling through social media, another inaccurate account of ...

Myths about how the Black Death traveled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

A new study shows how a medieval text was misread as history, shaping how the Black Death’s spread was understood for ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

Explore the complete guide to the plague—bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Learn symptoms, causes, history, treatments, and ...

Plague is often associated with Medieval history and the centuries-old Black Death epidemic, but a recent death in northern Arizona is a troublesome reminder of the flea-borne disease’s lingering hold ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The “Black Death” is typically thought of as long-eradicated disease, but the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis is still alive and well. El ...