And of course God: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam each coursed along the Silk Road. So did revolutionary innovations such as algebra. So did the bubonic plague. (Scholars think the Black Death ...

The new research, presented this August, may upend past research that suggested the plague spread to Europe via Silk Road traders. Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague and often ...

Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions ... and the infection causes plague. The ruins of a caravan stop on the old Silk Route in Kyrgyzstan. The Silk Routes were ...