Medieval Christian burials in Denmark were likely more influenced by money than supposed outward markers of sin, according to new research.

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.

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Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s strangest outbreaks. Around 400 people danced for days without rest in ...

In recent months, health authorities in California, USA, have been obliged to report two cases of the plague that appeared in West Coast state. In the state of Colorado two other people also ...

Being a teenager in the Middle Ages was a whole different kind of survival. In this video, we explore what life was really like for medieval teens – from hard labor and early marriages to ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe, California, resident. But before you put on your 17th-century “air ...

A California resident has tested positive for the plague after likely being bitten by an infected flea on a Lake Tahoe camping trip, health officials confirmed. The El Dorado County Health and Human ...

(KTXL) — A resident of South Lake Tahoe, California, has tested positive for the plague, health officials have confirmed. Few details were made available about the resident, but the El Dorado County ...