Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was a devastating pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353, ...

A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s arrival. Cooling and crop failures across Europe pushed Italian states to ...

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever ...

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

An erupting volcano may have kicked off a chain of events that led to the swift dance of the Black Plague across Europe in the 14th century, in a pandemic that killed tens of millions of people. New ...

Scientists have unraveled how an early form of Bronze Age plague that differed from the Black Death spread across Europe.