Daily Mail10y
Cyprian Plague victims unearthed in Egypt: Burnt corpses reveal a 3rd century burial plot built to 'prevent the apocalypse'
The 3rd century tomb was used to stop the deadly spread of a pandemic The Cyprian Plague killed 5,000 people a day at its peak from 250 to 271 AD The disease was believed to be smallpox ...
ScienceAlert on MSN17d
Ancestor of Black Death Has Been Discovered in Bronze-Age Sheep
An ancestor of the bacteria responsible for plague has been found in the tooth of a sheep that lived nearly 4,000 years ago ...
New Scientist25d
Ancient ancestor of the plague discovered in Bronze Age sheep
The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread through prehistoric farming communities ...
BBC1y
Causes and effects of the Black Death
I've been caring for patients of this horrible plague these last few months. Many other doctors have fled the city for fear of catching the disease, but it seems it is everywhere. A French doctor ...