"Readers often overlook the fact that Camus himself was ill with tuberculosis while he was writing The Plague," she adds. "So, he has a real stake in exploring how illness can change someone's ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread ...

Civilization VII features a variety of crises throughout each age, including a full-on invasion, a war of religion, and the ...

TEHRAN-The play “Caligula” written by Albert Camus will go on stage at the City Theater in Tehran from March 27.

Just as Sisyphus served to represent the absurd in the first cycle, Camus takes Prometheus for the second one to represent a rebellious act. This cycle includes, among other works, The Plague ...

Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. The plague that struck Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century wiped out nearly twenty million people. But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe. The word that terrified whole regions of the Earth is now commonly used in its ...