During the Black Plague, death came so fast that proper Christian burials became impossible. In Siena, mass graves filled the city as few priests were available and families were forced to bury loved ...

A spike in gravestones from 1338 in Kyrgyzstan led historian Philip Slavin to theorize that the Black Death may have begun years before it swept through Europe. Inscriptions mentioning “pestilence” ...

ZDF Studios will handle worldwide distribution, excluding the U.S. and U.K., of the new documentary series Black Death Patient Zero, produced by Impossible Factual. “Black Death Patient Zero is a ...

The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new study ...