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

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

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

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

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

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

Traces of a psychoactive compound has been detected in the dental plaque of a Bronze Age woman buried in Thailand some 4,000 ...

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