Rats? Children? The Mongols? The Black Death swept across the world with terrifying speed, but who (or what) was really to ...

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?

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...

Rats have been blamed for causing a ten-day outage for Openreach customers in Askern, a town within the city of Doncaster, England. The outage was flagged publicly by former Labour Party leader and ...

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 ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...

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

A volcanic eruption around 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic the Black Death, ...

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 ...