By Nathan Rao
The
devastating Black Death which killed hundreds of millions of people in
the 14th century may have been triggered by an asteroid impact,
scientists have sensationally claimed.
The shocking revelation threatens to debunk one of the biggest chunks of British history and turn the world of science and academia on its head.
And experts warn another collision with Earth could happen "at any moment" sparking an outbreak of disease capable of wiping out entire populations.
History has for centuries claimed the Black Death which led to the gruesome deaths of up to 200 million people in Europe was carried by rats and fleas.
Its victims were covered in huge weeping boils, swollen lymph glands, gangrene and rotting limbs and eventually succumbed to a slow an painful death.
It struck again every 30 or so years until the famous medieval bubonic plague in 1664 which finally came to an end after the Great Fire of London in 1666.
Read the rest of this article at - http://www.express.co.uk/news/history/559714/Black-Death-trigger-asteroid-impact-scientists
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The Black Death may have been triggered by asteroid impact
The Black Death may have been triggered by asteroid impact
The shocking revelation threatens to debunk one of the biggest chunks of British history and turn the world of science and academia on its head.
And experts warn another collision with Earth could happen "at any moment" sparking an outbreak of disease capable of wiping out entire populations.
History has for centuries claimed the Black Death which led to the gruesome deaths of up to 200 million people in Europe was carried by rats and fleas.
Its victims were covered in huge weeping boils, swollen lymph glands, gangrene and rotting limbs and eventually succumbed to a slow an painful death.
It struck again every 30 or so years until the famous medieval bubonic plague in 1664 which finally came to an end after the Great Fire of London in 1666.
Read the rest of this article at - http://www.express.co.uk/news/history/559714/Black-Death-trigger-asteroid-impact-scientists
