Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

Researchers looked into tree rings and historical documents to shed light on the reason that brought the deadliest plague ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

Volcanoes may have played a pivotal role in the Black Death, the bubonic plague pandemic that ravaged 14th-century Europe.

Clues contained in tree rings have identified volcanic activity as the "first domino to fall" in a sequence that led to the ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from ...

Germany’s president laid a wreath Friday at Coventry Cathedral in central England, symbolically atoning for the atrocities of ...

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death -- the ...