A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The ...

The Black Death, a mix of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plague, wiped out 60% of Europe's population in the 14th century ...

Publicly funded attraction produces ‘tool for culture change’ under strategy to become ‘genuinely anti-racist’ ...

The Black Death killed many people in the 1340s and 1350s. In 1665, another plague outbreak arrived in England. This is often referred to as the ‘Great Plague.’ During the outbreak of 1665 ...

"… [N]ever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged ...

This story appears in the February 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a brightly lit laboratory above the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), conservator Luisa Duarte is gently ...

“This discovery is a hugely important step forward in documenting and understanding Europe’s most devastating pandemic,” he added. “Until Crossrail’s discovery, archaeologists had been unable to ...

Putting on a mask to protect oneself and others against disease is nothing new, nor is resistance to mask-wearing, but mask designs have changed considerably from their first iterations. A 1619 ...