Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed the origin of the Black Death to a region of present day Kyrgyzstan called Issyk-Kul, once a stopover on the Silk Road trade route in the 14th century.

For example, the Black Death plague that devastated Europe in the 14th century is believed to have come via the Silk Road from Central Asia, where plague is endemic among local rodents. One theory ...

Her study also suggested the Black Death was originally spread from fleas ... traders "who then spread the disease via the Silk Road". It arrived on the British Isles in 1348, travelling on ...

The Silk Road was an overland route for caravans carrying ... dispersal of plague into Europe during the beginning of the Black Death. It is reasonable to hypothesize that similar processes ...

perhaps passing through fleas from infected marmots into people before then spreading to Europe along the Silk Road trade route. The Black Death is thought to have killed about 50 million ...

A Silk Road stopover ... by strains of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis that gave rise to the pathogens responsible several years later for the Black Death, shows a study of ancient ...

The Black Death, a plague that killed up to 60% of people ... right at the heart of long-distance trade routes known as the Silk Road,” he said. They were “extremely cosmopolitan, very ...

Over the course of the Silk Road’s operation, humanity had to face some of the worst illnesses in recorded history, from the Justinian plague of the sixth century to the Black Death of the 1340s ...

In the 14th century, the Black Death broke out along the Silk Road, the trade route between modern China and Europe, killing about 50 million people in Europe, more than a quarter of the ...

Despite surviving, and sometimes thriving, during times of trouble, the Silk Road trade started to deteriorate by about A.D. 1360. Already drained by the bursts of the bubonic plague during the Black ...