In a revelation that could rewrite the history of pandemics, researchers have unearthed astonishing evidence of the bubonic plague in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The discovery shows that the deadly ...

the bubonic plague. Infamously dangerous to humans, the Yersinia pestis infection first rose to infamy when it caused widespread death and devastation across Europe. However, its presence on the ...

Now, a groundbreaking genomic study published in Nature introduces a chilling possibility: an ancient plague pandemic. Yersinia pestis – the bacterium behind the infamous Black Death – may ...

the bubonic plague. Infamously dangerous to humans, the Yersinia pestis infection first rose to infamy when it caused widespread death and devastation across Europe. However, its presence on the ...

2024 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 ...

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 ...

pestis, implying the victim endured an advanced stage of the plague before dying. “This is the first reported prehistoric Y. pestis genome outside Eurasia, providing molecular evidence for the ...

Getty Images Analysis of the mummy’s bone tissue revealed traces of Y. Pestis — bubonic plague bacteria — DNA, meaning that the disease had reached an advanced stage when the victim perished ...