"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death terrorized Europe. Researchers analyzed an Egyptian mummy from a museum in ...

Bubonic plague is the most common form of ... Overall, as many as 25million people in Europe were killed. The Black Death subsided in Britain by the end of 1350, but there were further sporadic ...

The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty percent of Europe’s population in the years 1348 and 1349. Norman Cantor writes ...

The Black Death The plague that killed a quarter of the people of Europe in the years 1348–1350 is still studied to shed light on human behavior under conditions of universal catastrophe By ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

In England, the plague took on the name Black Death, because of the characteristic ... killing one-third of Europe's people — 25 million — in five years. Without any medical explanation ...

A prolonged and widespread human outbreak of plague, a pandemic like the Black Death and the hundreds of ... strains of Yersinia pestis that reached Europe in the fourteenth century are most ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

pestis has caused three plague pandemics; the Black Death was the second. The new research sheds light ... which postulates that Y. pestis swept into Europe from China. Their results also narrow the ...