Researchers looked into tree rings and historical documents to shed light on the reason that brought the deadliest plague ...

Understanding the complex network of preceding events and their consequences is the only way to get a clearer picture of the ...

Volcanoes may have played a pivotal role in the Black Death, the bubonic plague pandemic that ravaged 14th-century Europe.

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

Archaeologists in Switzerland recently made an unusual discovery while excavating the land around a medieval castle near the German border. The crews unearthed a well-preserved gauntlet that experts ...

Part of this month’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million.

A page with illuminations, or ornate medieval illustrations, from the Darlington Bible, a 14th century manuscript housed at the Indiana State Library. The Bible will be the focus of a special program, ...

One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs is “Tangled Up in Blue,” in part because of this set of lines, both literary and spiritual: She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe. “I thought you’d ...

Researchers say this ‘climate-famine-grain’ connection may help explain the timing of other plague outbreaks throughout ...

Archaeologists in Switzerland recently made an unusual discovery while excavating the land around a medieval castle near the German border. The crews unearthed a well-preserved gauntlet that experts ...