Plague doctors, or at least images of plague doctors, are having a bit of a cultural moment again, roughly 300 years after their actual heyday. They’ve become popular motifs for stickers, pins, masks, ...

Putting on a mask to protect oneself and others against disease is nothing new, nor is resistance to mask-wearing, but mask designs have changed considerably from their first iterations. A 1619 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Mask of the Plague Doctor The town of Thornback Hollow is under quarantine. Its people are unable to sleep, tormented by a disease known as the Waking Death ...

“Art as a kind of documentation of certain dark spells in humanity’s history can, in a lot of ways, be much more enlightening than that of simply reading written accounts.” Unknown Artist, A Physician ...