The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was a devastating pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353, ...
A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas carrying the bubonic plague.
New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...
A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s ...
Understanding the complex network of preceding events and their consequences is the only way to get a clearer picture of the ...
The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans within just a few years—may ...
A new generation of climate detectives is rewriting one of history’s darkest chapters, arguing that the Black Death did not ...
New research suggests genes that helped people survive in 1300s are linked to arthritis today ...
Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...
Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death—the most ...
By Hugo Francisco de Souza New interdisciplinary evidence shows how a mid-14th-century volcanic cooling reshaped ...
A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...