"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an important clue for how plague could transmit within pastoralist communities ...

Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light on the early evolution of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for ...

In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.

This was further compounded by the Plague of Justinian in 541. Researchers link the fog to volcanic eruptions, with evidence found in ice core samples from the Swiss Alps. The suffering did not ...

An ancestor of the bacteria responsible for plague has been found in the tooth of a sheep that lived nearly 4,000 years ago ...