The medieval village of Tal-y-llyn on Anglesey was abandoned after the plague struck in 1349, killing an estimated third of ...

The sole survivor was a medieval church where, 650 years later, a victim of the Post Office scandal was to find solace ...

There are no documented survivors of Unit 731, the covert department of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal ...

The Black Death tore through Europe in the late 1340s, killing tens of millions and halving populations across the continent in a matter of years. Scientists have long known the plague’s culprit was ...

Going back further, Addison Street had the dishonour of being named Deadman's Lane, and appears as Sickman's Lane in other records. In 1651, bubonic plague hit Liverpool, and Sickman's/Deadman's Lane ...

Volcanoes have always held an incredible power capable of shaping the course of human history. Around 1,600 B.C.E., an explosion on the Greek island of Santorini likely wiped out Europe’s first ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation of the Black Death in Europe. Researchers from ...

The Black Death was the most devastating pandemic to ravage Europe, killing up to half of the continent’s population between 1348 and 1349. It is widely accepted that the disease was caused by the ...

A volcanic eruption around 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic the Black Death, scientists say. Clues preserved in tree rings suggest the eruption ...

The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans within just a few years—may have been aided in its devastation by an unknown volcanic eruption. Martin ...