The bubonic plague’s origins are coming to light thanks to an unexpected find. Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains.

The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great ...

No matter where you look up the meaning of the word “plague”, it’s never a good thing. It can be confusing, because as a verb, plague means “to cause continual distress”, yet as a noun ...

But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made, that disease also forged a new world dedicated to the proposition that men had ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions ... Medical professionals at the time could not correctly explain the cause of the plague. Various causes were put forward.

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 ...

and which was known everywhere as the black death, caused an enormous loss of life. This disease is now believed by epidemioloists to be identical with the bubonic plague of the Orient.

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.

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...

LONDON Several teams of scientists around the world have, for some time, been studying the possibility that a genetic mutation perpetuated by the organism responsible for bubonic plague, or the Black ...

During the Bubonic plague in the Middle Ages ... in his book Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. “A wide-brimmed hat could defend the head, and a mask with a protruding ...

Armed with blood-chilling torture devices, their mission is to stamp out suspected paganism in a village that remains untouched by the black plague, even as the rest of Europe grimly succumbs to ...