"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 ...

Rats that have been mummified in tar for over 600 years could shed new information on the Black Death. One of the deadliest pandemics in human history, the plague killed vast swathes of Europeans ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...