The mummy, housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, revealed traces of Yersinia pestis DNA, the bacterium responsible for the bubonic plague, indicating that the individual suffered horrific ...

One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy. Technically known as the virus Yersinia pestis, the bubonic ...

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 ...