Scots researchers help uncover centuries-old mystery surrounding Black Death

The University of Stirling's Dr Philip Slavin was pivotal throughout the research process

AFTER more than six-and-a-half-centuries of mystery, a team of researchers have discovered the origins of the Black Death.

Specialist scientists from the University of Stirling, Max Planck Institute and the University of Tubingen have found proof that the late medieval bubonic plague originally began in North Kyrgyzstan in the late 1330s.