During the 1340s, the plague moved through India, Syria, Persia, and Egypt and decimated communities in its path before reaching Europe in 1347. The Black Death was used as a biological weapon.

The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague ... Here’s a palpable moment, let’s do something and head out in a new path to deal with these sorts of things.’ Cantor: In the writings ...

The yellowed and sometimes barely legible pages of 16 th-century texts speak of disaster after disaster—from the Black Death to locust invasions to a period of intense climate change that ...

I pray to God every night that we will soon find out what causes this deadly disease. The term 'Black Death' was first used in English in the 1700s. At the time of the epidemic, most people would ...