In the first half of the 16th century, the region experienced years ... Records reflect 30 years of a plague epidemic and 23 years of famine due to extreme climate shifts during this time ...

In the summer of 1518, the streets of Strasbourg (then a part of the Roman Empire) turned into an eerie stage where men and women danced uncontrollably for days—many until they collapsed and died. Was ...

Doctors during the 16th and 17th century wore elaborate outfits to protect them from the plague. They worked in the same way as the protective clothes and masks worn by modern doctors during the ...

Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the twentieth century, it came to America. In the summer of 1899, a ship sailing from Hong ...

The 16th and 17th centuries ... drumroll please… THE GREAT PLAGUE OF 1664!! Like the Black Death 300 years earlier… the Great Plague was pretty damn harsh, killing around 100,000 people ...

On display at the German Museum of Medical History in Ingolstadt is an authentic 16th Century CE, plague doctor mask, an eerie yet fascinating relic from one of history's darkest periods.