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 ...

The Black Death, caused by the spread of the yersinia pestis bacteria by rats, was a devastating pandemic that first struck Europe in the mid-1300s, when it's estimated to have killed up to two ...

In this way, it assessed the impact of the most devasting pandemic in human history, the Black Death. The international research group made up of ca. 60 researchers analyzed 1,634 pollen samples from ...

Witness the dark tale of Caffa in 1347, where war, plague, and biological warfare intersected to spark the Black Death. Discover how a single event led to Europe's deadliest pandemic.

Using a technique for extracting ancient DNA, researchers have found that the form of Yersinia pestis that caused the Black Death in medieval Europe may be extinct, according to a new study publishing ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread through prehistoric farming communities ...

I've been caring for patients of this horrible plague these last few months. Many other doctors have fled the city for fear of catching the disease, but it seems it is everywhere. A French doctor ...