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High-resolution Paleoclimate Reconstruction From Balmy 200 B.C.E. to the Little Ice Age in 600 C.E. Shows Spasms of Extreme Cold Were Linked to Horrific Disease Emergence

High-resolution Paleoclimate Reconstruction From Balmy 200 B.C.E. to the Little Ice Age in 600 C.E. Shows Spasms of Extreme Cold Were Linked to Horrific Disease Emergence

New climate data for ancient Italy point to temperature and rainfall influences on past infectious disease outbreaks.

The Byzantine Empire, often overshadowed by its predecessor, the Roman Empire, and its successor, the Ottoman Empire, was a remarkable civilization that

Abstract. When the Black Death struck Western Europe in late 1347, city dwellers across the region were already practising public health, in part by building, m

The Justinianic Plague is the first known outbreak of bubonic plague in west Eurasian history and struck the Mediterranean world at a pivotal moment in its historical development, when the Emperor Justinian was trying to restore Roman imperial power.

A new study argues that recent scholarship has badly underestimated the impact of the 6th-century Plague of Justinian on Eurasian and North African societies.

Mysterious News Briefly — November 24, 2021 A rare, 54-page manuscript co-written by Albert Einstein and his lifelong friend and engineer Michele Besso, in which they describe Einstein’s famous theory of general relativity, sold at an auction in Paris this week for over $15 million, well above the predicted $3.5 million. The winning bidder is... Read more »

The Justinianic Plague spread through west Eurasia between the 6th and 8th centuries CE, signifying the first known outbreak of bubonic plague in this part of the world.

The Justinianic Plague is the first known outbreak of bubonic plague in west Eurasian history and struck the Mediterranean world at a pivotal moment in