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

An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death terrorized Europe. Researchers analyzed an Egyptian mummy from a museum in ...

The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty percent of Europe’s population in the years 1348 and 1349. Norman Cantor writes ...

In England, the plague took on the name Black Death, because of the characteristic ... killing one-third of Europe's people — 25 million — in five years. Without any medical explanation ...

The Black Death The plague that killed a quarter of the people of Europe in the years 1348–1350 is still studied to shed light on human behavior under conditions of universal catastrophe By ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

A new study from a University of Nottingham archaeologist has revealed surprising insights into the city's medieval past, ...

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 ...

In the 14th century, before treatment was available, bubonic plague killed 50 million people in Europe and became known as the "Black Death." But in modern times, bubonic plague is rare affecting ...

pestis has caused three plague pandemics; the Black Death was the second. The new research sheds light ... which postulates that Y. pestis swept into Europe from China. Their results also narrow the ...