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 ...

Myths about how the Black Death traveled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single fourteenth-century source, experts have found. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

A new generation of climate detectives is rewriting one of history’s darkest chapters, arguing that the Black Death did not erupt out of nowhere but followed a colossal volcanic blast that chilled the ...

For centuries, the prevailing explanation of how the Black Death entered medieval Europe was a simple narrative of biological warfare. During a siege of Caffa, a Genoa-controlled port city on the ...