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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 ...
Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known ...
An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides ...
Sheep helped spread an early form of the plague, suggests new research. The bacterium that causes bubonic plague has been ...
Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The ...
The pathogen that causes plague has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated-sheep carcass, suggesting that livestock ...