"Bring Out Your Dead" A street during the Great Plague in London, 1665, with a death cart and mourners. Image: Wellcome in Creative Commons Coronavirus is not the first deadly infection to strike ...

Up to 60% of London ... the Black Death and now a map revealing where much of the victims of the deadly outbreak still lie has been published online. Pinpointing the reputed ‘plague pits ...

It is hoped the research will answer many of the questions about the cause of the plague epidemics that cast the shadow of death over London from ... pile into wooden carts and attempt to flee ...

Now specialists from the Museum of London Archaeology will analyze the latest discovery in the hope of revealing whether bubonic plague or some other pestilence was the cause of death. The number ...

The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, ravaged Europe between 1346 and 1352, decimating almost half of the ...

DURING the 17th century the worst outbreak of plague since the Black Death of 1348 tore its way through London. Thousands were estimated to have perished during the outbreak, but what was the plague?

The seven-year study involved the extraction of DNA isolated from three different groups of skeletal remains unearthed in London and Denmark: Plague victims, those who died before the Black Death ...

In subsequent years, further plague epidemics hit the UK, with the worst outbreak since the Black Death beginning in 1665, when London lost around 15% of its population. It's commonly believed ...

The strain of bacteria that caused the Great Plague ... Death in the 14th century—from skeletons discovered last year during the construction of the new Crossrail underground rail link beneath ...

Some, like those behind the bubonic plague ... than 200 people from London and Denmark who died over about 100 years that stretched before, during and after the Black Death swept through that ...

DURING the 17th century the worst outbreak of plague since the Black Death of 1348 tore its way through London. Thousands were estimated to have perished during the outbreak, but what was the plague?