The artifact was remarkably preserved for a millennium in anaerobic clay on a private estate near the city of Montfoort ...

A medieval sword has gone on display at a museum in the Netherlands after its chance discovery during a dredging operation on ...

The second – which was known as the Black Death – swept through medieval Europe, starting from the 14th century. The third pandemic began in China in the 19th century, and spread to other ...

Ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade route in Central Asia has helped solve an enduring mystery, pinpointing an area in northern Kyrgyzstan as ...

Today, many of us think of the plague as something confined to the history books — a grim symbol of the medieval period, before doctors knew about the existence of viruses or bacteria.

Our Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that may have helped them survive the Black Death make us more susceptible to certain diseases today. It’s a prime example of the ...

This jibes chronologically with the onset of the Black Death; and plague could have continued traversing this route with the fur traders for centuries. PNAS , 2018. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1812865115 ...

The second – which was known as the Black Death – swept through medieval Europe, starting from the 14th century. The third pandemic began in China in the 19th century, and spread to other ...

Today, many of us think of the plague as something confined to the history books — a grim symbol of the medieval period, before doctors knew about the existence of viruses or bacteria.

Today, many of us think of the plague as something confined to the history books – a grim symbol of the medieval period, before doctors knew about the existence of viruses or bacteria.

First, they felt pain all over their body. Next, a lump — sometimes as small as pea, other times as big as an apple — protruded from their skin. Then, as the disease spread throughout their ...

The second — which was known as the Black Death — swept through medieval Europe, starting from the 14th century. The third pandemic began in China in the 19th century, and spread to other ...