A sheep tooth from Bronze Age Arkaim revealed the earliest known Yersinia pestis infection in a domesticated animal.

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people. Another, ...

A single 4,000-year-old sheep tooth has turned a long-running mystery about an ancient plague into a concrete trail of evidence, revealing how a deadly pathogen moved with people, animals, and trade ...

From the storied shores of Scandinavia to the ancient cities of the Mediterranean, we've picked out Europe's 29 most ...

In 2022, a farmer plowing his field in Rhubodach, Scotland came across the remains of two people that date back 4,000 years.

Nate Richard is a Resource Editor for Collider, a film and television critic, and a part-time amateur filmmaker. He graduated from Ball State University in December 2020 with a Bachelor's degree in ...

Teeth provide a wealth of information about the lives of Iron Age Italians, according to a study published in the open-access ...

A tense new coming-of-age film follows a group of boys at a water polo summer camp. The film is called "The Plague." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE PLAGUE") EVERETT BLUNCK: (As Ben) There's nothing wrong ...

Foreboding title aside, one could reasonably begin watching Charlie Polinger’s “The Plague” and assume that it is a Y.A. coming of age drama— a modern-day “The 400 Blows” or a male “Welcome to the ...