Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

Precursor of Black Death Detected in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep Excavated in Russia: Study A prehistoric form of Black Death seems ...

For the first time, archeologists and anthropologists have identified this ancient plague in an animal: a 4,000-year-old ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides ...

Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known ...

Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The ...