They get a bad rep - but on the big screen, they're kings. On World Rat Day, Euronews Culture squeaks its mind by celebrating cinema's greatest rats.

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead ... it is too late. Bubonic plague has come to Oran. Soon it is the ...

But beyond the age-old associations with disease and the spreading of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe ... This is the trouble with modern audiences – we're so quick to factlessly ...

Set in Oran, the fable unfolds with an outbreak of bubonic plague that kills hundreds of people a day and forces authorities to seal the gates to prevent the pestilence from spreading. The ...

Born circa 1341 B.C., most likely in Ankhetaten (present-day Tell el-Amarna), Tutankhamun ... to escape the bubonic plague that was ravaging Egypt’s congested cities as well as to make a clean ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

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 ...

The UK recently experienced a bubonic plague scare due to a mistakenly reported human case, bringing to mind the historical devastation of the 'Black Death.' Pexels A wave of concern has swept ...

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By April 1638 officially around 1,550 people, a fifth of the city’s population, had been consumed by the pestilence and buried in plague pits. In fact more died in an outbreak of bubonic plague ...