Researchers excavated a 4,000-year-old sheep tooth from Russia and found that it was infected by the Late Neolithic Bronze ...

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

Troy’s story is more than archaeological curiosity – it is a mirror. Like many societies past and present, its economic ...

Study by Max Planck Institute and partners detects the late neolithic bronze age plague strain in a 4,000-year-old Arkaim sheep, linking human and animal infections.

Researchers have identified the first evidence of the Late Neolithic Bronze Age plague in a 4,000-year-old sheep from Arkaim, ...

A new study has decoded a mysterious plague that swept across Eurasia thousands of years ago. An ancient strain of plague ...

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

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

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