One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy. Technically known as the virus Yersinia pestis, the bubonic ...

Scientists thought a tomb with similarities to buildings from Ptolemaic Egypt had been erected in memory of Cleopatra’s half ...

We set up two state-of-the-art DNA-sequencing labs, one in the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the other at the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University. The research would be led by ...

So, in 2015, ‘ancient DNA’ was extracted from their teeth to solve the mystery. But how did the mystery start? The pair’s joint burial site, later dubbed The Tomb of The Two Brothers, was discovered ...

pestis DNA in an ancient Egyptian mummy of an adult male from the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. The individual, who was anthropogenically mummified, was radiocarbon-dated from ...

An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old ... hinting at the plague's spread by rodents on boats. But DNA evidence like that found in the mummy was needed to confirm the disease's presence.