Plague Archive

Neolithic Megalithic Graves In Central And Northern Europe Of The Wartberg Culture Are Not Plague Victims

Megalithic Structures Are Not Mass Graves For Neolithic Plague Victims

AncientPages.com | September 9, 2024

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Since the catastrophic pandemics of the Middle Ages, one disease has almost proverbially symbolized contagion and death: the plague. It is now established

Archaeology

Did The Plague Of Athens Come From Egypt Or Is It A Myth?

AncientPages.com | December 13, 2023

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many reports from antiquity about outbreaks of plague mention Egypt as the source of pestilences that reached the Mediterranean. But was this really

Archaeology

DNA From 4,000-Year-Old Plague Discovered – The Oldest Cases To Date In Britain

AncientPages.com | May 30, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague—the oldest evidence of

Archaeology

Evolution Of Plague Over Hundreds Of Years In Scandinavia Documented By Scientists

AncientPages.com | February 28, 2023

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists who study the origins and evolution of the plague have examined hundreds of ancient human teeth from Denmark, seeking to address longstanding

Archaeology

Justinianic Plague Struck England Before It Reached Constantinople And It Did Not Wipe Out The Roman Empire

AncientPages.com | November 19, 2021

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - 'Plague sceptics' are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th– 8th centuries CE, argues a new study based

Infectious disease modeling study casts doubt on the Justinianic Plague's impact

Archaeology

Justinianic Plague: Modeling Study Challenges Death Rate And Severity Of Infectious Disease

AncientPages.com | May 4, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many have claimed the Justinianic Plague (c. 541-750 CE) killed half of the population of the Roman Empire. Now, historical research and mathematical

Archaeology

Humans Spread The Black Death – Not Rats – Scientists Say

AncientPages.com | February 7, 2018

AncientPages.com - The Black Death is one of the most devastating plagues in human history. The Black Death, started in the Gobi Desert as a minor disease known as Yersinia