Italian President Sergio Mattarella who joined international leaders at Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day Monday for the ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of ...

An earlier major plague pandemic, dubbed the Justinian plague, started in Rome around 541 and continued to erupt for the next ...

After a plague epidemic kills 100,000 people in Naples, Rome begins inspecting all incoming ships and patrolling its border in hopes of keeping the plague out. When Romans start dying from plague ...

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The words are Ecclesiastes 1:9 – among my ...

California officials denied—and tried to hide—the first plague epidemic that reached U.S. shores Sarah Holzmann Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague infections, all stemming from the ...

During the outbreak of plague in Rome in 1656, the physician Gregorio Rossi warned: “Procul omnis tristitia, venus, signities. Mens sit hilaris, contemplationibis non laxetur” (“Avoid sadness and ...

No matter where you look up the meaning of the word “plague”, it’s never a good thing. It can be confusing, because as a verb, plague means “to cause continual distress”, yet as a noun ...

He is a former director of the American Academy in Rome, a past president of the Medieval Academy ... He also edited and wrote the introduction for Plague and the End of Antiquity: the Pandemic of 541 ...