Hear ye! Hear ye! A new history fact has been debunked! According to bubo-bursting research by the German Museum of Medicine ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we were all reminded of the long history of masks used as protection against disease, ranging ...

Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world’s only daily column that doesn’t have much space today so we’re going to just blurt out some short snippets we think are funny and stop when something ...

A creepy beak, old masks, two holes to look through–the old plague masks worn by doctors in the 17th century to treat the sick are reminiscent of a horror movie. The plague is considered a disease ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists have ...