The 3rd century tomb was used to stop the deadly spread of a pandemic The Cyprian Plague killed 5,000 people ... in a pit in Luxor, Egypt. Kilns used to produce lime to cover the victims were ...

There was no recovery after the first, second, third or 10th plague of Egypt. There was one disaster followed by the next. Do you know how else this disease is different from those we witnessed in ...

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A new archaeological discovery in Egypt includes traces of an ... indicates that the findings date from the 3rd century A.D., when a vicious plague claimed the lives of thousands living in the ...

The breakthrough discovery provides “molecular evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt,” the researchers wrote in their abstract. Researchers determined this after examining the ...

Many reports from antiquity about outbreaks of plague mention Egypt as the source of pestilences that reached the Mediterranean. But was this really the case? Researchers from the University of ...

The bacterium also caused the third plague pandemic between the 19th and 20th centuries. By amassing 601 Y. pestis genome sequences, including modern and ancient strains, researchers from Canada ...