Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

(CNN) — Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. While extremely ...

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

When death arrived on the shores of Europe in 1347, it came with a terror so profound that entire civilizations crumbled ...

For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being challenged.

Today's Think, Texas column is dedicated to remembering the echoes of plague in this state. For no matter how fervently we may wish to put it behind us, COVID-19, in its multiplying variants, is not ...

I was leafing through a Passover Haggadah yesterday, preparatory to last night’s Seder. It’s one of many in my possession, a text, with extensive commentaries in English and Hebrew, that was published ...