"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

All told, the study authors say their evidence supports the notion that the Black Death originated from Central Asia and counters other theories, such as the East Asia hypothesis, which postulates ...

suggesting that the deadly disease was present in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death devastated Europe. The mummy, housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, revealed traces ...