Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient ... commonly known as the Silk Road.” Artifacts found at the site, including pearls that ...

The cemetery lay on the main route of the Silk Road. The site was dated to 2,200 to 2,050 years ago via radiocarbon dating, putting it in the time frame when the Silk Road was active with the ...

Trade helped to spread the plague. Travellers on the Silk Route took the infection with them. Often ships would carry the black rats, taking them (and their fleas) to new cities and countries.

And yet few international travelers make the journey to, much less know anything about, Turkey’s Black Sea region ... cities and a key stop on the Silk Road, Trabzon has for centuries been ...

Set at the height of the bubonic plague as it ravages medieval Europe during the fourteenth century, Black Death combines the horrors of its devastating times with the action of a harrowing plot ...