Medieval people also found more personal ways to record their experiences. Graffiti carved into church walls provides glimpses of the horrors of plague and the desire for individual memorialization.

Plague is commonly associated with rats, crowded medieval cities, and the epidemics that swept across Europe during and after the Middle Ages. But a new study published in Nature shows that the ...

In our research in the British Library’s medieval collections, we have identified a previously unnoticed document that provides fresh insights into the survivors of the outbreak of plague known as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient DNA shows plague killed Siberian hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago, before cities and flea-borne epidemics. (CREDIT: ...

Ancient DNA reveals that plague repeatedly returned to Europe for more than 400 years after the Black Death, evolving into new lineages and spreading through trade, migration, and war. Researchers ...

FIVE AND A HALF THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE THE BLACK DEATH, SOMETHING WENT THROUGH THESE FAMILIES IN WEEKS Archaeologists digging along the Angara River in southern Siberia noticed something odd about the ...

Memories of pandemics are often contentious. They can be disputed, uncomfortable and politically charged. As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to feel more distant, governments, communities and families ...

Plague did not wait for medieval cities, crowded streets, or shipborne rats to become deadly. More than 5,500 years ago, the disease was already killing people in small hunter-gatherer communities ...