The new research about the Black Death was published earlier this month Getty Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may have been triggered by one or more volcanic eruptions The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An 1877 engraving based on a painting showing the Black Death’s devastation of Florence, Italy, in 1348. (DEA/Biblioteca ...

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 ...

The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans within just a few years—may have been aided in its devastation by an unknown volcanic eruption. Martin ...

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death—the most devastating pandemic in human history—to the shores of medieval Europe, new ...

(CNN) — The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new ...

Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may have been triggered by one or more volcanic eruptions The disease may have been carried by fleas infected with the bubonic plague that ...