It is a shared affliction, our collective ailment, our common humanity, that gives rise to irrational behavior...
Plague
The cause of the plague was unknown until the 19th century CE. Introduction The word ‘plague’, in...
The Code of Hammurabi and writings from ancient Greeks mention this “lung wasting” disease and their treatments...
There have been three great world pandemics of bubonic plague recorded, in 541, 1347, and 1894 CE....
Disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in 540 CE. By Thomas H....
Plagues functioned as a setup for an even more crucial theme in ancient myth: a leader’s intelligence....
Urban centers especially had become centers of plague and disease outbreaks. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction People in...
The masks were designed to protect them from putrid air, which was seen as the cause of...
The city-state of Sparta, and much of the eastern Mediterranean, was also struck by the disease. Introduction...
People caught and died from plague long before it caused major epidemics like the Black Death in...
The outbreak continued to sweep throughout the Mediterranean world for another 225 years, finally disappearing in 750...
The epidemic killed upwards of 1/3 of the population; a population which numbered 250,000-300,000 in the 5th...
The Black Death struck in 1348, 1362, 1368, 1381, and continued even into the 18th century. 1348...