Mickey Starling  [email protected] In my search for interesting moments in history to share this week, I may ...

#23 The tale of the dancing plague of 1518. In Strasbourg (modern-day France), a woman named Frau Troffea began dancing ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...