The widespread outbreak of plague struck between 1347 and 1351, killing tens of millions of people, resulting in the loss of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Written records had indicated that about 12,000 people were buried in large pits outside the city of Erfurt, but their exact ...

A remarkable discovery in a Swedish bog revealed the well-preserved remains of a medieval man who had been dead for centuries ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photograph of the fresco Trionfo della Morte, taken at its original location in the Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa. The fresco, ...

Researchers have unearthed strong evidence of thousands of Black Death victims in a first-of-its-kind mass grave at a medieval village outside Germany. The find marks the first systematically ...