Trade routes have been the lifeblood of civilizations for thousands of years, connecting cultures, economies, and people ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

Reference to plague often evokes images of ... over the world,” Prof Achtman said. “We can map the individual routes of the isolates. [The history] all fits exactly with the genetics.

Today, many of us think of the plague as something confined to the history books – a grim symbol ... and west into Europe via trade routes, said Black. Even if the second pandemic had come ...

Perhaps, the new study argues, plague spread through these sites. At the same time, innovations such as wheeled transport and metallurgy allowed distant trade routes to emerge, possibly connecting ...

Eyam lay on an important trade route between Sheffield and Manchester; if plague got into those cities ... one the Eyam survivors’ descendants, wrote in a history of the village: “The immortal ...

There are two main forms of plague infection, depending on the route of infection: bubonic and pneumonic. Bubonic plague is brought on by the bite of an infected flea and travels through the ...

Today, many of us think of the plague as something confined to the history books – a grim symbol ... and west into Europe via trade routes, said Black. Even if the second pandemic had come ...

Today, many of us think of the plague as something confined to the history books — a grim symbol ... and west into Europe via trade routes, said Black. Even if the second pandemic had come ...

Today, many of us think of the plague as something confined to the history books — a grim symbol ... and west into Europe via trade routes, said Black. Even if the second pandemic had come ...