Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows.

Plague terrorized the globe, killed millions of people The first recorded cases of bubonic plague killed millions of people across the Mediterranean region. They began in the 6th century and ...

In the 14th century, the Black Death broke out along the Silk Road, the trade route between modern China and Europe, killing about 50 million people in Europe, more than a quarter of the ...

An etching called "The Plague Victims of Rome." The Black Death killed millions of people in Europe in the 14th century. (Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...