Researchers Find Origins of Largest Pandemic - Bubonic Plague AKA Black Death

Bubonic plague AKA Black Death killed anywhere from 10 to 200 million people in Eurasia and Africa in the 1300s.

An international team of researchers may have traced the origins of the deadliest pandemic in mankind's recorded history - the bubonic plague AKA the Black Death.

The bubonic plague pandemic of the 1300s killed nearly 200 million people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, spreading violently and rapidly from 1346 to 1353. It is the deadliest pandemic recorded.

The team of researchers led by Dr. Philip Slavin, a historian from the University of Stirling in Scotland, traced the bubonic plague's origins to central Asia in the 1300s. To be specific, Kyrgyzstan, Asia.

The team started its investigation by investigating a recorded spike in burials at two cemeteries in Kyrgyzstan towards the end of the 1330s.