You'd probably not think I'd then tell you about Ancient Egypt, right? Well, it turns out the two are linked, with an ancient mummy having traces of the pandemic that once wiped out 50 million people.
Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...
Otoscopic examination of the ears of Egyptian mummy PUM II with the operating microscope ... A method which allows decalcification of ancient specimens without disintegration of the eardrum ...
According to Daily Mail, experts have discovered the virus Yersinia pestis in a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy, making it the first case of plague outside Eurasia. Prior to this, archaeologists had ...
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. The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the bubonic plague, is known ...