An archaeogenetic study, published in Science Advances, sheds new light on the isolated medieval community Las Gobas in northern Spain
Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae strains that caused leprosy in people
People living in ancient Eastern Arabia appear to have developed resistance to malaria following the appearance of agriculture in the region around five thousand years ago
A new study shows, among other things, that there have been two almost total population turnovers in Denmark over the past 7,300 years
A new study shows Syphilis-like diseases were already widespread in America before the arrival of Columbus; it questions the theory that Columbus brought syphilis to Europe
Spatial and social inequalities in the face of death. Pilot research on cholera epidemics in Poznań of the second half of the nineteenth century
4,000-year-old plague DNA found: the oldest cases to date in Britain; the paper is published in Nature Communications
