More was written about the Black Death than any previous disaster. And yet the facts remain murky.

Nearly 700 years ago, one of the biggest pandemics ever swept the globe. And now a recent study suggests that outbreak of bubonic plague may have helped protect future generations against disease. NPR ...

Scientists believe they have finally uncovered what triggered the deadly plague that wiped out over half the medieval population of Europe. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz ...

In our research in the British Library's medieval collections, we have identified a previously unnoticed document that provides fresh insights into the survivors of the outbreak of plague known as the ...

More than seven centuries ago, a bubonic plague pandemic known as the Black Death devastated Eurasia, killing up to 60% of the population, including 50 million Europeans, between 1346 A.D. and 1353 ...

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