Old Egyptian Mummy With ‘Black Death’ DNA, May Have Spread by Fleas on Nile Rats Researchers have finally managed to confirm ...

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the ...

Scientist at the University of Aberdeen are using 3D imaging software to create interactive models of mummies and other ...

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Researchers found the first evidence of the bubonic plague outside of Europe and Asia in an Egyptian mummy housed in Turin, ...

An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old, may have died from the bubonic plague, providing the first genetic evidence of the disease outside the Eurasian continent, new research shows. The finding ...

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

shows the frozen mummy and B. shows Panthera leo (Linnaeus ... has very similar traits to the 35,000-year-old cub. This marks the first time remains of this kind have been studied.

Scientists successfully extracted and sequenced DNA from a 3,600-year-old cheese found smeared on mummies in the Xiaohe cemetery in Xinjiang, Western China. The cheese, discovered nearly two ...