The pandemic of bubonic plague—later dubbed the Black Death—raged through Europe from 1347 to 1351 and wiped out between one-third and two-thirds of the entire population. But it wasn’t all ...

Witness the dark tale of Caffa in 1347, where war, plague, and biological warfare intersected to spark the Black Death. Discover how a single event led to Europe's deadliest pandemic.

This made Slavin wonder whether the site might help settle a long debate about the origins of the Black Death pandemic that arrived in Europe around 1347 CE. Knowing he’d have little chance of finding ...

How the Black Death entered Europe.