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 ...

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 ...

But this theory has lacked enough evidence to prove that the disease was present in ancient Egypt. Now the breakthrough discovery from the mummy's DNA could prove this theory to be true.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Not only that, but academics now believe she may not even have been Egyptian as DNA tests have revealed she is more genetically similar to Europeans than modern Egyptians. Scans and forensic ...