The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

The mummy is housed at the Egyptian Museum of Turin in Turin, Italy. Getty Images However, the Black Death’s existence wasn’t able to be confirmed without DNA evidence like the kind found in ...

The oldest confirmed case of the plague outside of Eurasia has been detected in an ancient Egyptian mummy. Dating back to around 3,290 years ago, the embalmed remains belong to a male individual ...

AN EERIE Egyptian mummy who died a horror death has revealed to scientists an unbelievable Black Death secret. It is believed that the 3,290-year-old embalmed remains belonged to a male who suffere… ...

AN EERIE Egyptian mummy who died a horror death has revealed to scientists an unbelievable Black Death secret. It is believed that the 3,290-year-old embalmed remains belonged to a male who suffere… ...

The discovery provides molecular evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt, ... Did Nile rats spread the Black Death? Infected mummy shows bubonic plague existed in Egypt 3,290 years ago.

Experts have theorized about the bubonic plague’s presence in ancient Egypt for decades. As IFL Science notes, a research team in 2004 found millennia-old fleas at an archeological site in ...

Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian mummy over 3,000 years old, believed to have been a victim of the bubonic plague – also known as the “Black Death.” The mummy is the first evidence of the ...

Whether ground up as medicine or on display at 'unwrapping parties,' Egyptian mummies fascinated Europeans, giving rise to what's known as Egyptomania. In an 1891 painting by Paul Dominique ...

The bubonic plague – also known as the Black Death – is caused by a thoroughly nasty bacterium called Yersinia pestis, and had its heyday in the 14th century when it spread across Europe ...