A new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a population boom.

A recent study published in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns analyzes the true causes of ...

Witness accounts abound for the Justinian Plague and the Black Death, but the prehistoric strain remains an enigma. “How did it spread?” Dr. Harper said. “How did it affect people?

Get a better sense of how illnesses have shaped history with these gripping reads about history’s most notorious diseases.

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mortals always to be blest. Book IV, line 260. Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell) he practis'd what ...

Infectious diseases with high prevalence are listed separately (sometimes in addition to their epidemics), such as malaria, which may have killed 50–60 billion people throughout history, or about half ...

Hotel owners have blamed the guests for a 'plague' of bedbugs at a hotel in Tenerife, which have left hundreds of holidaymakers with bites and scars. Sun-seekers including Brits abroad have ...