Many believed it was a judgement from God - millions dead as punishment for the sins of mankind. In Britain alone, the Black Death wiped out up to half of the population when it struck between ...

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. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

The central hall of Raffaele Fabrizio’s 17th-century palazzo in Valmorea ... barren of the few thousand people who live here, a black cat creeps from under a bright yellow Mustang.

Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information ...

In advance of his spring/summer 2025 show, the designer—who took over the storied brand when he was only 27—spoke to Bazaar ...

The cousin of Qatar's ruler lost his fight at the High Court in London on Thursday against another ... shortly before his death in 2014. The agreement gave QIPCO the option to buy the diamond ...

“What makes Alain’s discovery so very important is that it provides the link between the church architecture plan used at Jamestown in 1608 and plans later in the 17th century elsewhere in ...

This is a far cry from the apothecary shops of the 17th century where shelves would have been lined with countless jars of dried plants, roots and animal parts and the apothecary would have been busy ...

A new study suggests that plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, may have been present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. Historians analyzed 13th-century medical and historical ...

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. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

the 320-acre Grenadine island to which thousands of Garifuna — indigenous Vincentians — were taken and where about half of them died in the late 17th century after the death of Paramount Chief ...