Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...
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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. The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the bubonic plague, is known ...
"The Black Death claimed the lives of millions of people around the world. According to the researchers, the 3,290-year-old embalmed remains belonged to a man who suffered from terrible symptoms ...
The team reached their conclusion after examining a mummy housed in Italy’s Museo Egizio that dates back to the Second Intermediate Period or early New Kingdom. According to researchers, DNA ...
After the Black Death ravaged 14th-century Eurasia, the bubonic plague became an enduring spectre of mortality, resurfacing periodically in smaller outbreaks—a grim reminder that its shadow ...