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

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

By the 15th century, Arabic and later European historians interpreted Ibn al-Wardi’s story as a fact-based parable, with ...

A Minneapolis woman is facing challenges in evicting a renter who has overstayed her welcome and hasn't paid rent since June.

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

The Black Death swept through central Asia, North Africa, and Europe, claiming approximately 100 million lives, marking it as ...

C enturies before questionable COVID-19 information began rippling through social media, another inaccurate account of ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

In 1518, Strasbourg experienced a terrifying Dancing Plague where hundreds danced uncontrollably for days, some to their ...

A new study shows how a medieval text was misread as history, shaping how the Black Death’s spread was understood for ...

Experts said the discovery was “ground breaking” with new testing transforming understandings of the city’s medieval ...

The theater lights dimmed and guests settled in their seats as artist, historian and descendant of the Neponset band of the ...