It marks the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia, indicating that the disease was present in North Africa ...

Old Egyptian Mummy With ‘Black Death’ DNA, May Have Spread by Fleas on Nile Rats Researchers have finally managed to confirm ...

Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian mummy over 3,000 years old, believed to have been a victim of the bubonic plague - ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost ...

Samples of 'The Black Death', which wiped out 50 million people in medieval times, were found in an Egyptian mummy ...

Archaeologists in Italy have found one of the oldest known cases of the bubonic plague, which has caused millions of deaths ...

More archeological excavation is needed to clarify exactly what this pit was used for. “Roman society was full of ...

In a revelation that could rewrite the history of pandemics, researchers have unearthed astonishing evidence of the bubonic ...

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the ...

Although the bubonic plague is most often associated with its deadly impact on 14th century Europe, traces of Yersinia pestis have also been found in skeletons found in modern-day Russia dating as far ...

Researchers found the first evidence of the bubonic plague outside of Europe and Asia in an Egyptian mummy housed in Turin, ...

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