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

The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, spread across Europe in the 14th century, wiping out as many as 50 million ...

Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially results in flu-like symptoms a few days after infection. From there, things ...

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. The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the bubonic plague, is known ...

A cutting-edge analysis of a skull found in Turkey in 1929 proves once and for all that it is not Arsinoë IV, Cleopatra's ...

Pestis — bubonic plague bacteria — DNA, meaning that the disease had reached ... long postulated about the plague’s footprint in Egypt for decades, there hasn’t been solid evidence for ...

CSI methods indicate that the skull from the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology's collection does not belong to Arsinoë IV. An interdisciplinary research team led by anthropologist Gerhard Weber ...

pestis DNA in both its bone tissue and intestinal ... Despite this lack of clarity over the prevalence of the Black Death in ancient Egypt, previous studies have hinted at possible outbreaks ...

According to researchers, DNA extracted from both intestinal contents ... providing molecular evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt,” the team wrote in their presentation abstract.