A volcanic eruption may have triggered “the largest known plague pandemic in human history,” according to a new study about ...

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

An international team of researchers, including U of A archaeologist Taylor Hermes, has found the first evidence of a Bronze Age plague infection in a non-human host. The discovery provides a missing ...

The bacteria that causes the Black Death did not suddenly appear in the 14th century. It had been around for 5,000 years. So ...

A sudden climate jolt disrupted harvests and trade, setting in motion the grain routes that helped carry plague into Europe.

Newtons breakthroughs were not born from instant inspiration but from years of meticulous observation, calculation, ...

Researchers say this ‘climate-famine-grain’ connection may help explain the timing of other plague outbreaks throughout ...

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death -- the ...

Though its route through Central Asia remains elusive, two German researchers believe they have discovered how — and why — ...

Volcanoes may have played a pivotal role in the Black Death, the bubonic plague pandemic that ravaged 14th-century Europe.