A common myth during many plagues, but most specifically the bubonic plague, was that only the poor got sick and died. This classist ideology had people believing for centuries that the wealthy were ...

Plague, and the infamous Black Death, spread quickly for centuries, killing millions. Plague still occurs but can be treated with antibiotics.

The Black Death likely killed over 50 million Europeans, around half its total population at the time. In a study recently published in the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, historians at the ...

Historians have traced myths about the Black Death’s rapid journey across Asia to one 14th-century poem by Ibn al-Wardi. His imaginative maqāma, never meant as fact, became the foundation for ...

Atlas from the 14th century, attributed to Abraham Cresques. Via Wikimedia Commons. Presented in 1380 as a gift to King Charles V of France, the atlas offers a detailed depiction of the known world, ...