Plague of Cyprian: Did you mean...?

Explore the history of the European plague doctor, and find out where their iconic outfit of a beaked mask and robe came from. The year is 1656. Your body is wracked by violent chills. Your head pounds and you're...

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In 540 CE, Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I had great ambition of regaining Western Roman territories. His goal was to restore the Eastern Roman empire to what it was before the Roman empire dissolved. However, just a year...

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-bubonic-plague-sharon-n-dewitte The bubonic plague, which killed around 1/5 of the world’s population...

Illustration from a medieval manuscript Giovanni Boccaccio, Le Decameron. Translated from the Italian by Laurent de Premierfait Bruges, Master of 1482 and follower (illuminators); c. 1485...

Water is Changed into Blood, the first of the ten plagues of Egypt, watercolor by James Tissot, before 1903.

Bonaparte Visiting the Pesthouse in Jaffa, oil on canvas by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1804. Louvre, Paris.

Simon Forman (1552-1611) was an Elizabethan physician, astrologer, magician, and alchemist who lived and worked in both London and Wiltshire, England. He was unusual in that despite receiving no formal training in medicine or astrology...

See how the bubonic plague throughout history has kept coming back and killing millions up to modern times.

Why didn't the Europeans get sick when they made contact with the American Indians?