The ancient world suffered immensely from plagues, like the 430 BC Athenian plague, which had lasting consequences for all of ...

Ending in 1,200 B.C., the period is centuries before the famous plague outbreaks ever occurred, showing that the Black Death was simply waiting in the dark for hundreds of years before striking so ...

People have shuddered in reading about the famous plagues of history,--the swarms of files which soured Egyptian tempers, the campaigns of the African ant-armies, the rats of Hamburg which the ...

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.

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

HERE’S a cheery thought just as spring has sprung. It’s exactly 387 years since the worst plague Worcester has ever suffered came to an end. By April 1638 officially around 1,550 people ...