The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. The post Single gene evolution helped Black ...

The 17th century was marked by near-constant war, rebellion, and social collapse across much of the world. But what caused this wave of crises to erupt nearly everywhere at once? In this documentary, ...

Surprisingly, the history of statistics doesn’t go back very far. In the 17th century, British demographer John Graunt ...

Some of history’s oldest wigs were donned by the elite of ancient Egypt, both in life and death. These English roots would give way to French dominance by the mid-17th century, when the 23-year ...

Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a "lawnmower poetry ...

A deadly outbreak of a disease which first emerged in the 17th century has led a South American ... organ failure, and death. The NHS recommends that you should get a yellow fever vaccine if ...

‘A 17th-century pirate disease,’ Robbie told The ... after Brooklyn makes feelings clear on feud Police investigating death of influencer's toddler son in swimming pool He added that he ...

Lower Hazel in Olveston, near Almondsbury, which dates back to the 17th century, has been recognised ... and plain funerary monuments reflecting humility in death. The land was provided through ...

Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th Century poetry collection ... in the decades following his death. Dr Veronese found the sonnet ...

In 2024, archaeologists uncovered the remains of approximately 3,000 individuals from the 17th century in mass graves ... gender, age at death, and any signs of diseases or wear on their bones.

He was writing at a time of significant upheaval in 17th-century England ... hath his heart all the day long and not on by fear of death, poverty or other calamity, and has no repose nor ...

Europe in the 17th century was also in the grip of what ... “Maybe because of some misfortune or the death of somebody else, they decided to open the grave,” Poliński suggested.