Scientists have recovered DNA from the bacterium that caused London’s 1665 Great Plague by studying the teeth of five skeletons. This is the first time that plague DNA from 17th-century Britain has ...

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DNA tests conducted in Germany found that the bacteria that causes bubonic plague caused London’s Great Plague of 1665-1666. The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History tested teeth from ...

Just what we need, another reminder about the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, History Channel ordered two new scripted miniseries as part of its move back to limited series, and one of them focuses ...

DNA testing on teeth has officially confirmed the cause of London’s 1665-1666 Great Plague, which tore through the city killing almost a quarter of its population in just 18 months. The final ...

Researchers claim to have discovered the cause of the 1665 Great Plague of London, which killed more than a quarter of the city’s population in the span of a year, according to CNN. Scientists from ...

David Roberts is the co-editor of the World Classics edition of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year with Louis Landa. In 1722, Daniel Defoe pulled off one of the great literary hoaxes of all ...

DNA has confirmed that skeletons found under the site of a future train station in London are from victims of the 1665 Great Plague. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you ...

A mass burial pit thought to contain 30 victims of the Great Plague of 1665 has been discovered by Crossrail workers near Liverpool Street station in London. The bodies and a gravestone marked "1665" ...

While “social distancing” and “self-quarantine” were previously unfamiliar concepts for many of us, they are hardly new. Even people who lived before the discovery of microbes believed such actions ...

DNA tests conducted in Germany found that the bacteria that causes bubonic plague caused London’s Great Plague of 1665-1666. The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History tested teeth from ...