In 1347, the Black Death first arrived in the Mediterranean via trade ships carrying goods from the territories of the Golden ...

Sicilian authorities hastily ordered the fleet of “death ships” out of the harbour, but it was too late: Over the next five years, the Black Death would kill more than 20 million people in ...

which then crossed over to black rats that traveled on ancient ships, consequently carrying the Black Death across the world, as noted by The New York Post. Yersinia pestis is usually transmitted ...

Bubonic plague, or the ‘Black Death’ as it became known during the pandemic of the ... then the world’s largest city – possibly carried north from the Sudan up the Nile aboard grain ships, and then ...