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 ...

The Black Death was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, killing tens of millions across Europe in the 14th ...

The second plague pandemic of the mid-14th century, the Black Death, led to dietary changes that potentially caused changes in oral bacteria that contributed to systemic disease in modern humans, ...

In 1347, ships from the Black Sea arrived in Sicily carrying an unseen killer. Rats and fleas aboard the grain vessels spread the plague that would become the Black Death. Within months, Italian ports ...

According to European folklore, if a black cat crosses your path, you've run out of luck. The association between strolling felines and terrible misfortune likely comes from the tradition of the ...

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” ...