How the Black Death entered Europe.

Bubonic plague is most commonly associated with the Middle Ages when the Black Death wiped out as many as 200 million people and 60% of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351.

Witness the dark tale of Caffa in 1347, where war, plague, and biological warfare intersected to spark the Black Death. Discover how a single event led to Europe's deadliest pandemic.

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may have been present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. Historians analyzed 13th-century medical and historical texts, revealing that the bacterium likely established itself ...

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