Miasma
The Ancient Epidemics journal — history, evidence and insight.
We called it Miasma after the ancient theory that disease spread through bad air — the best explanation the classical world had, long before germ theory. It’s a fitting name for a journal about how people have always tried to make sense of epidemics with the tools and understanding available to them at the time.
The Drowned Battlefield
A strange suit, a flooded landscape and the diseases that followed war.
The Red Cross on the Door
Inside London's plague houses, where a public-health order could turn a family home into a place of confinement.
The Past Has More to Tell Us
Introducing The Ancient BioChain — and why its second phase will turn towards ancient pathogens.
The Invention of Quarantine
Six centuries before germ theory, a small Adriatic city decided that waiting was worth the cost — and gave the world the number forty.
When the Gods Would Not Answer
A Bronze Age king, an inherited catastrophe and twenty years of asking why — what the Hittite Plague Prayers of Mursili II can and…
Behind the Beak: The Plague Doctor, the Myth and the Evidence
An unsettling mask, a pocketful of perfume and a story that is not quite what it seems — what the evidence actually says about…
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