The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, revealing that the disease’s early spread depended on animals long before ...
A single 4,000-year-old sheep tooth has turned a long-running mystery about an ancient plague into a concrete trail of evidence, revealing how a deadly pathogen moved with people, animals, and trade ...
Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...