Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

Five years after the virus was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2025, worldwide deaths from Covid-19 are estimated at 19-36 ...

In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.

In fact, scientists think that it may have been around before the 1300s, as there are records of a similar disease in Rome in 146AD, known as the Justinian plague. The symptoms of the plague were ...

This was further compounded by the Plague of Justinian in 541. Researchers link the fog to volcanic eruptions, with evidence found in ice core samples from the Swiss Alps. The suffering did not ...

archaeology and epidemiology of the so-called Plague of Justinian, the first historically documented pandemic of bubonic plague in history. His most recent publication is Indispensable Immigrants: The ...

Taylor Hermes, an assistant professor of anthropology at the U of A, received a grant of €100,000 to research the evolution and spread of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis during the Bronze ...