By analyzing these samples, scientists hope to gain insights into the nature of the plague during the 17th century. This ...

Scotland was no stranger to the plague, suffering multiple waves and thousands of deaths from the start of the Black Death until the mid-17th century. The port of Leith was particularly vulnerable ...

And the surprise discovery is dramatically rewriting the history of one of the most notorious diseases to plague ... in fourth-century China and second-century Rome. Still, the 17th-century ...

When 'The Great Plague' struck 17th Century England, one rural community took decisive action that was unusual for the time, but still fascinates centuries later. Video by the BBC's Howard ...

The 16th and 17th centuries! Ahh… The Renaissance period ... drumroll please… THE GREAT PLAGUE OF 1664!! Like the Black Death 300 years earlier… the Great Plague was pretty damn harsh ...

The buchette del vino, or "wine holes", became very import to Florence during the plague of 1630 as they ... libation-serving windows from the 17th Century that are peppered throughout the Italian ...