Today, in the final episode of the Past Pandemics series, we're talking about the Plague of Justinian, the first occurrence of the Black Death in Europe! There's a Monty Python reference in here so ...

Although the Plague of Justinian undoubtedly struck the final blow to the Negev grape industry, the story isn't quite that simple. As we've seen in 2020, political tensions, climate change, and ...

The Plague of Justinian (AD 541–542) was a pandemic that afflicted the Eastern Roman Empire, including its capital Constantinople. At its peak, 5,000 people per day in Constantinople died from ...

To plague aficionados, the Justinian Plague, which in the 6th century AD is thought to have killed 30 million to 50 million from Asia to Africa to Europe, is hardly a footnote.

The Yersinia pestis strain responsible for the Plague of Justinian between A.D. 541 and 543 was of a different lineage than the strain that caused the Black Death 800 years later, with both ...

Many centuries before the Black Death wiped out a third to half of Europe, an equally virulent pandemic called the Plague of Justinian killed upwards of 100 million people in just two short years ...

The Plague of Justinian struck in the sixth century and is estimated to have killed between 30 and 50 million people -- virtually half the world's population as it spread across Asia, ...

Grave goods found with the bodies suggest burial around 530-570 AD, when Justinian ruled the eastern Roman Empire. During the second half of the 6th century, the plague hit Europe in at least ...

The plague has been responsible for three major human pandemics. The first pandemic, which began with the Plague of Justinian, around 541 to 544 AD, continued sporadically until around 750 AD.