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.
Volcanic eruptions could have fueled the spread of the Black Death plague across medieval Europe, according to a new study ...
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Archaeologists uncover a lost 'Book of the Dead' in Egypt
Archaeologists working in Egypt have brought to light a remarkably preserved funerary papyrus that specialists are already ...
It is one of the greatest enigmas of the Old Kingdom. Following the stunning engineering and organizational feat of the Great Pyramid of Giza, something unexpected happened. Instead of continuing and ...
A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...
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New theory on Europe's plague blames a volcano
A new study offers a novel theory on how the plague came to establish a foothold in Europe in the 14th century and kill ...
Clues contained in tree rings have identified volcanic activity as the "first domino to fall" in a sequence that led to the ...
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