Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig said that “clues contained in tree rings” have “identified ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

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A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas carrying the bubonic plague.

The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was a devastating pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353, resulting in the deaths of millions, possibly 50% of Europe’s population at the ...

The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans within just a few years—may have been aided in its devastation by an unknown volcanic eruption. Martin ...

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Historians have traced myths about the Black Death’s rapid journey across Asia to one 14th-century poem by Ibn al-Wardi. His imaginative maqāma, never meant as fact, became the foundation for ...

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The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new study ...

The new research about the Black Death was published earlier this month Getty Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may have been triggered by one or more volcanic eruptions The ...