Ten of the gravestones from those two years had longer inscriptions memorializing the persons and their cause of death—pestilence. This made Slavin wonder whether the site might help settle a long ...

W hen the Black Death hit London, England in 1348 CE, it began to affect the English language. Due to the class struggle imposed on England by the Norman Conquest in 1066 CE, the linguistic makeup ...

suggesting that the deadly disease was present in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death devastated Europe. The mummy, housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, revealed traces ...