A new study offers a novel theory on how the plague came to establish a foothold in Europe in the 14th century and kill ...

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

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

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

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

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...