Q&A: Looking at ancient Roman plagues through an environmental lens
Ancient DNA evidence confirms that bubonic plague spread across the Mediterranean region all the way to western Europe and ...
来自MSN3 个月
Pandemics Of The Past: 7 Ancient Plagues That Changed The World & Where They Happened
Ancient plagues swept through civilizations like wildfire, transforming the course of human history in their wake. From Rome to Athens, these devastating outbreaks rewrote the rules of society and ...
Ancestor of Black Death Has Been Discovered in Bronze-Age Sheep
"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 ...
JSTOR Daily6 个月
History of the Plague
Drancourt, Michel, Michel Signoli, La Vu Dang, Bruno Bizot, Véronique Roux, Stéfan Tzortzis, and Didier Raoult. 2007. "Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients." Emerging ...
New Scientist1 个月
Ancient ancestor of the plague discovered in Bronze Age sheep
An ancient ancestor of the pathogen that would ... Its DNA closely matches that of plague bacteria found in European human skeletons from the same period, providing the first evidence that the ...
Smithsonian Magazine3 年
The Real Culprit of an Ancient Egyptian Plague Was... Bread?
According to the Bible, the 10th plague to befall Ancient Egypt killed the first born child of every family. Now, new scientific evidence suggests that this may have actually occurred - and that a ...