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

The pathogen that causes plague has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated-sheep carcass, suggesting that livestock ...

Troy’s story is more than archaeological curiosity – it is a mirror. Like many societies past and present, its economic ambitions outpaced ecological limits. The warning signs were there: falling ...

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 ...

Sheep helped spread an early form of the plague, suggests new research. The bacterium that causes bubonic plague has been ...

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 ...