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 remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. The post Single gene evolution helped Black ...

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

The 14th-century pandemic wasn’t called the Black Death until later. In England, the Black Death was popularly known as “the pestilence,” and in much of the rest of Europe as “the plague ...

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 ...

The Black Death, the 14th-century bubonic plague that killed some 1 in 3 people in Europe and an estimated 200 million across the world, has left another long-lasting mark: on the immune systems ...

When the Black Death massacred up to 50 percent of the European population in the mid-14th century, it appears to have etched an enduring mark on human genetics, altering the frequency of genes ...

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 ...

Loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century collection of short stories, the series follows a group of Italian nobles and servants who flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death ...

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 ...

For the sake of simplicity, this article will narrow its scope to Northern Europe during the 14th century, a time when the Black Death ran rampant, the Hundred Years’ War raged, and chivalry was ...