New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried imported grain to fill the gap came plague-carrying fleas.

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...

Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from ...

The authors conclude that their findings offer a potential explanation for how the Black Death began and moved through Europe, linking climatic disruption, famine, and the movement of grain during a ...

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

While the 21st century has seen remarkable innovations in digital technology that have given directors and cinematographers ...

A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose's reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with ...

Exodus 3–4 reveals God’s personal call to Moses, the mystery of the divine name, and the mission that will reshape salvation ...

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