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

Researchers looked into tree rings and historical documents to shed light on the reason that brought the deadliest plague ...

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

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

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

Germany’s president is set to lay a wreath Friday at Coventry Cathedral in central England, symbolically atoning for the ...

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death -- the ...

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...

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

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...