Researchers analyzed isotopes and DNA in the teeth of remains found in a mass grave from the Plague of Justinian, which swept through the Byzantine Empire ...

An ancient mass grave in Jerash, Jordan uncovers new details about one of the earliest recorded pandemics in history. The Plague of Justinian spread across the Byzantine Empire between 541 and 750 CE, ...

In the mid-sixth century, a devastating disease swept across the Byzantine world and changed the course of entire cities. The ...

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In 536 AD, something extraordinary happened. The sun dimmed. The sky darkened. Crops failed. Temperatures dropped across Europe and Asia. Contemporary writers described a year without proper sunlight.

The reign of Justinian I, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century, was hampered by an outbreak of bubonic plague. Now known as the Plague of Justinian, this pandemic is thought to have ...

Key point: The plague’s total death toll is estimated to lie between 25 and 50 million—in other words, between one out of every eight, and one out of every four humans then living on Earth. Justinian ...

Ancient trash heaps recently yielded some clues about how the Plague of Justinian, part of a one-two punch with volcanic climate havoc, devastated commercial farming at the fringes of the Byzantine ...

The first confirmed mass grave of bubonic plague victims has been discovered in Jerash, Jordan. An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of South Florida studied an ...