First scientific evidence of Black Death in Edinburgh found on skeleton

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

Ancient DNA confirms Black Death in 14th century Edinburgh teen's skeleton

Traces of plague bacteria were found in a medieval skeleton from St Giles' Cathedral after new scientific analysis.

Centuries of Black Death misinformation started with a poem

By the 15th century, Arabic and later European historians interpreted Ibn al-Wardi’s story as a fact-based parable, with ...

First DNA evidence of Black Death in Edinburgh discovered on teeth of excavated teenage skeleton

Experts said the discovery was “ground breaking” with new testing transforming understandings of the city’s medieval ...
History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday on MSN

Royals who Died of Bubonic Plague

The Black Death swept through central Asia, North Africa, and Europe, claiming approximately 100 million lives, marking it as ...
The Business Standard

First evidence of Black Death found in Edinburgh skeleton

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the skeleton of a teenage boy who died in the 14th century, shedding new light on one of history's deadliest ...
The Spectator Australia

Books of the Year II – further recommendations from our regular reviewers

Philip Hensher I have a theory that Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels are an ingenious variation on Shakespeare’s Henry ...
Ancient Origins

A Single Medieval Arabic Tale Shaped Centuries of False Black Death History

The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

How a Medieval Poem Fooled Historians About the Black Death for 700 Years

A new study reveals that modern ideas about the Black Death’s rapid spread across Asia stem from a centuries-old ...

How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread

Myths about how the Black Death traveled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single ...
Scared Of on MSN

Public Fear of Disease Outbreaks From Plague to Modern Pandemics

When death arrived on the shores of Europe in 1347, it came with a terror so profound that entire civilizations crumbled ...
The Clarion-Ledger

Mother of Trey Reed, New Black Panthers rally at Delta State alleging death was a lynching

The family of a Delta State University student and a Black activist organization allege he was lynched, disputing the official ruling of suicide. Authorities, including the Mississippi State Medical ...