Archaeologists in England recently uncovered new details about a medieval mass burial of victims of bubonic plague. When the so-called Black Death swept through northern Lincolnshire during the middle ...

Researchers have unearthed strong evidence of thousands of Black Death victims in a first-of-its-kind mass grave at a medieval village outside Germany. The find marks the first systematically ...

The sweeping scourge of the Black Death in 14th century England was so great it forced city-dwelling victims out to countryside hospitals, based on the tragic findings in a mass grave in Lincolnshire, ...

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