So large was the death toll and so great was the danger of contagion that funerary customs were disrupted. People fled cities ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

Scientists believe they have finally uncovered what triggered the deadly plague that wiped out over half the medieval population of Europe. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Black Death likely killed over 50 million Europeans, around half its total population at the time. In a study recently ...

A spike in gravestones from 1338 in Kyrgyzstan led historian Philip Slavin to theorize that the Black Death may have begun years before it swept through Europe. Inscriptions mentioning “pestilence” ...

The new research about the Black Death was published earlier this month Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. Getty Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may ...

People watch lava at a volcanic eruption at Litli Hrutur near Reykjavik, Iceland - Copyright AFP Kristinn Magnusson People watch lava at a volcanic eruption at Litli ...

Ancient gravestones in Kyrgyzstan hint the Black Death began long before it reached Europe. A spike in gravestones from 1338 in Kyrgyzstan led historian Philip Slavin to theorize that the Black Death ...