The biggest excavation in decades at the Tower of London has revealed remains from up to 50 people, with certain burials ...

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ...

Plague, once known as the ‘Black Death’ that nearly wiped out half of Europe's population, is now rare in humans and ...

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The victim was rushed to Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, US, showing ...

However, the spectre of the Black Death endured throughout the centuries that followed, with superstition, fear and panic across generations. By the 20th century, the Black Death had become the model ...

Researchers spent five years studying bones from medieval Cambridge, England, to see what life was like for a cross section of the city’s survivors of the Black Death.

The Black Death caused so many deaths that, even today, genetic diversity is lower in the UK than it was in the 11th century, says New Scientist.