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 - ...

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

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 ...

Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially ...

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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Radiocarbon dated to the end of the Second Intermediate Period or the beginning of the New Kingdom, the mummy contained ...