When cases of plague pop up in the US, it can feel straight up medieval. It's treatable, but how and why does it persist?

The often antiquated but functional areas are being devoured by showy but unoriginal palatial developments. The “new” ...

Best Acting in a Helmet, Best Nervous Breakdown, Craziest Charm—the film performances so good Wesley Morris had to invent his own categories.

The Yang Fire Horse year (2026) brings intense energy, historical parallels (1966, 1066), political shifts, and romantic luck ...

This month, stalk the streets of ancient Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage, cut down demons across a fallen empire in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, shred through hell’s underworld in Skate Story, or soar ...

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

In a new study about the potential origins of the Black Death, scientists suggested that one or more volcanic eruptions that ...

An international team of researchers, including U of A archaeologist Taylor Hermes, has found the first evidence of a Bronze Age plague infection in a non-human host. The discovery provides a missing ...

When people think of Medieval diseases, hysterical dancing is not usually what first comes to mind. Yet in 14th and 15th ...

Here’s how a cliff-clinging population on a remote volcanic stack rewrote extinction for one of the world’s rarest insects.

Traveling through Turkey, I quickly realized the true locals aren’t just the people—they’re the cats. From Istanbul’s ...