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

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

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

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

Experts said the discovery was “ground breaking” with new testing transforming understandings of the city’s medieval ...

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

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 ...

An Arizona citizen has died from pneumonic plague, sparking fear that the deadly ‘Black Death’ might be resurfacing in parts of United States of America. The patient was being treated at Flagstaff ...

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

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 ...

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

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