the sun sets behind icicles melting on permafrost in Alaska with a river in the background Ancient pathogens that have been locked away for hundreds of thousands of years are starting to emerge from ...

The 14th century in Europe was marked by a demographic upheaval of unprecedented scale with the Black Death. An ...

Using a technique for extracting ancient DNA, researchers have found that the form of Yersinia pestis that caused the Black Death in medieval Europe may be extinct, according to a new study publishing ...

Volcanic eruptions could have fueled the spread of the Black Death plague across medieval Europe, according to a new study that pieces together evidence from ice cores, rare blue tree rings from ...