In Europe, art depicting the Black Death was initially seen as a warning of punishment that the plague would bring to sinners and societies. The centuries that followed brought a new role for the ...

A new strain of the Black Death – which killed half the people in the world in the 14 th Century – could emerge without warning, scientists say. And while modern medicine would help to combat ...

A strain of bubonic plague as deadly as the one that caused the Black Death could strike again without warning, scientists have warned. Researchers studied the Plague of Justinian, which killed ...