New research suggests young adults aged 15 to 24 were particularly vulnerable during the Black Death, based on medieval ...

Some seven centuries ago, a man in Scotland had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day indeed. There he was, going about the business of living, when something interrupted. Something that slammed ...

Medieval responses to the plague varied. Many people believed that the plague was God’s punishment of humankind for its sins, ...

June 15 (Reuters) - Ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade route in Central Asia has helped solve an enduring mystery, pinpointing an area in northern ...

The majority of homicides catalogued on the map occurred in public places, including crowded streets and markets Violence Research Centre/University of Cambridge It was the priest in Dunstan Parish ...

Sometime in the mid-1440s, an as yet unidentified artist filled a wall at the entrance to Palermo’s first municipal hospital with a 19½-by-21-foot painting designed to scare people to death—and into ...