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

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

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

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

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 ...

But plague has surfaced many times in human history and persists today. It’s an ancient disease, as evidenced by the three Bronze Age individuals that carried it to their graves.

But Rasmussen said knowing that plague existed thousands of years earlier than had been believed might explain some unsolved historical mysteries, including the "Plague of Athens," a horrifying ...

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