A team of researchers has ended a more than six-and-a-half-century mystery, after discovering the origins of the Black Death for the first time.
Specialist scientists from the University of Stirling, Max Planck Institute and the University of Tubingen, have uncovered the first historical proof that the late medieval bubonic plague originally began in North Kyrgyzstan in the late 1330s.
The origins of the pandemic have been postulated by medieval chroniclers ever since its appearance in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 675 years ago, and debated by historians for the last 270 years.
