The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really ...

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 ...

From 1346 to 1353, and occasionally thereafter, the Bubonic Plague ravaged Europe, killing up to 50 million people. Spread ...

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 ...

A single 4,000-year-old sheep bone, pulled from a windswept burial mound in Central Asia, is forcing scientists to rethink how one of history’s most feared diseases first spread. Instead of leaping ...

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 ...