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

In August 1665, the Battle of Vågen unfolded in Bergen, Norway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A Dutch merchant fleet, backed by unexpected Danish allies, clashed with a formidable English ...

Myths about how the Black Death traveled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single ...

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

In Jewish history, few episodes are as dramatic and consequential as the rise and fall of the false messiah Shabbatai Tzvi and the messianic Shabbatean movement that followed. At the heart of this mid ...

VEHICLES. WELL, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, CONFIRMING THE FIRST CASE OF THE PLAGUE. AND TONIGHT, SEVEN WANTS TO KEEP YOU SAFE. COREY HOWARD IS LIVE IN ALBUQUERQUE, WHERE CORY MEDICAL EXPERTS ARE ...

A New Mexico resident has tested positive for the plague, making it the second case in the state this year, health officials confirmed on Wednesday, Sept. 24. According to a news release from the New ...

A 77-year-old man from Bernalillo County has tested positive for the plague — the second reported case this year — state health officials announced Wednesday. The case comes a month after a ...

A section of Corn Street was previously called Bank Court [Getty Images] An interactive map featuring Bristol's long-forgotten street names has been created by historians. From Cow Street, now the ...