The phrase "What is the Black Death?" is trending on TikTok, and people want to know the reason behind it. It has already garnered considerable attention, and numerous posts and video clips have been ...

The plague devastated Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but gave peasant families an unexpected advantage at the dinner table.

In a world without modern medicine or vaccines, Medieval populations stricken by the plague turned to strange and desperate remedies they hoped would save their lives.

It's a tough time to be a Game of Thrones fan. Not only has the original hit HBO fantasy series ended, but its prequel follow-up, House of the Dragon, is currently in the midst of prepping a third ...

The black plague is one of the deadliest diseases humans have ever faced; it killed as many as 50 million people – including ...

The Black Death ravaged medieval Western Europe, ultimately wiping out roughly one-third of the population. Scientists have identified the bacterium responsible and its likely origins, but certain ...

In our research in the British Library’s medieval collections, we have identified a previously unnoticed document that provides fresh insights into the survivors of the outbreak of plague known as the ...

The Black Death was the most catastrophic pandemic in human history. Between 1347 and 1353, up to half of Europe's population ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...