Taylor Hermes, an assistant professor of anthropology at the U of A, received a grant of €100,000 to research the evolution and spread of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis during the Bronze ...

New research suggests that plague was present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. A new study ...

"Because humans in the Middle Ages had no concept of microbes, we will never find bacteria mentioned in our written sources.

The result was a rise in the Black middle class, especially in places like Washington, D.C., where workers entered the system in lower-level jobs but rose through the ranks based on performance ...

India’s middle class after Independence was largely created by the public sector. Employment in the public sector stood at 194.7 lakh and that in the organised private sector only at 80.6 lakh as on ...