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 ...

Black Death Plague in US: A horrific simulation depicted what occurs if you get the bubonic plague. An individual in California tested positive for a type of plague, exactly a month after a person in ...

A spike in gravestones from 1338 in Kyrgyzstan led historian Philip Slavin to theorize that the Black Death may have begun years before it swept through Europe. Inscriptions mentioning “pestilence” ...

The Black Death has long been framed as a purely biological catastrophe, a lethal bacterium riding into crowded ports and tearing through unprepared cities. New research now argues that the pandemic’s ...

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 ...

New interdisciplinary evidence shows how a mid-14th-century volcanic cooling reshaped Mediterranean food security, redirected grain ships from the Black Sea, and inadvertently opened the door to one ...