Welcome aboard the maiden voyage of the Excavate Podcast. In this episode, Khalid will be recounting to you the origins of a terrible disease that would come to be feared across the world. This story begins in 1346, with the Golden Horde of Mongolia and the Crimean city of Kaffa. From there we are led across the seas to Europe, following this plagues first steps on a journey that would lead to the death of half the world. This is the story of the Black Death.