The Decameron gives the show the perspective of the characters by leaving out many fascinating and more modern details about the Black Plague. Set in 1348, Netflix's newest period piece, centered ...

The strain responsible for the Black Death, which the study says is thought to have begun in 1346, was newly estimated to have diverged from an ancestral strain between 1214 and 1315 — up to 132 ...

The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.Video above: How did ...

The dietary and hygienic changes that people underwent as a result of the Black Plague could be the reason why human being are so fond of junk food 700 years later, scientists say.

The bubonic plague wiped out tens of millions of people in Europe in the 14th century — gaining the grim label the Black Death.In 2024, a handful of cases arise each year in the United States ...

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient ...