the infamous bacteria responsible for the Black Death. Although the condition is now easily treated with modern antibiotics, in the 14th century, it wiped out half of Europe's population in just ...

The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, ravaged Europe between 1346 and 1352, decimating almost half of the ...

ranging from the 10th to the 14th century. Dr. Slavin, a latecomer to the group that analyzed plague victims in Kyrgyzstan, said one of his dreams was to solve the riddle of the Black Death’s ...

(AFP) The origin of Black Death, a bacterial plague that wiped out half of the continent's population in the 14th century, has been pinpointed. Countering the previous theories that the disease ...

Various regions in Asia have been proposed as the origin of this second plague pandemic—the first being the sixth-century Justinian ... the plague during the Black Death. It also raises the ...

Finding where the Black Death began is a major step toward understanding why and how it spilled over from animals to humans and spread so catastrophically in the 14th century. Slavin suspects ...

pinpointing an area in northern Kyrgyzstan as the launching point for the Black Death that killed tens of millions of people in the mid-14th century. Researchers said on Wednesday they retrieved ...

They began in the 6th century and endured until the 8th century. In the 14th century, the Black Death broke out along the Silk Road, the trade route between modern China and Europe, killing about ...