COVID-19 was first identified in the city of Wuhan, China, in December of 2019. The World Health Organization declared it a pandemic in March. As of July, over 12 million people have been infected ...

Historian Elliott (Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy) evaluates in this enlightening account the impact of the Antonine plague of 165 CE on the demise of the Pax Romana, a period of ...

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Before March of this year, few probably thought disease could be a significant driver of human history. Not so anymore. People are beginning to understand that the little changes COVID-19 has already ...

The western Roman empire’s economic and political decline started with the smallpox-like Antonine plague that began in A.D. 165, and intensified the following century with the Ebola-like Cyprian ...

For their study in Science Advances, the researchers reconstructed temperatures and precipitation for the period from 200 BC to 600 AD, with a resolution of three years. This means that two data ...

A newly published study of the paleoclimatic record presents a reconstruction of temperature and precipitation from approximately 200 BC to 600 AD, based on marine sedimentary archives from southern ...