We continue to follow the work of historian Prof Philip Slavin, and biologists Dr Johannes Krause and Dr Maria Spyrou as they bring together brand-new historical research with ancient DNA analysis to uncover the earliest human victim of the Black Death. Killing an estimated 200,000,000 people, it is the deadliest pandemic in history. The disease transformed the face of Europe in the Middle Ages, with a wide-ranging impact on the continent, from the economy to religion and from literature to art.
