Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

But it is the plague that began in 1346 which killed more than 50 million people in just seven years that we refer to as the ‘Black Death’. The Middle Ages was a time of superstition ...

Best known for causing the Black Death scare, the plague was responsible for the deaths of over 50 million people throughout Europe in the 14th century. To grasp the scale of its devastation ...

A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The horror bug that previously wiped out half of Europe in the Black Death is ...

and the immediate burial of the dead,” all of which served to control the Black Death. Nonetheless, he adds, 2o percent of Europe’s Jewish population succumbed to the plague. During the 18th ...

Best known for causing the Black Death scare, the horror bug that previously wiped out half of Europe. On 26 March ... reprise their role as the Bubonic Plague after 672 years away, in a harrowing ...

Sky History has pre-bought both docs as 2 x 60-minute series from distributor ZDF Studios. Other broadcasters to have ...

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Journalists and politicians dare not speak its name — but that doesn't mean COVID hasn't got a serious legacy.

The Plague Tour’will take place every Friday and Saturday throughout April 2025, within the atmospheric underground streets of The Real Mary King’s Close. Guests will be transported back to the 17th ...

Another as-yet-unidentified volcanic eruption in 1452-53 is thought to have been a key component of the ‘Little Ice Age’, ...