A new breakthrough suggests that sheep and other livestock played a prominent role in the spread of an ancient plague across Eurasia thousands of years before the famed Black Death. For the first time ...
In the middle of the 7th century, a plague swept through the walled city of Jerash, in what is now modern-day Jordan. Ceramicists abandoned their workshops under the Hippodrome, leaving unfired ...
A newly confirmed mass grave in the ancient city of Jerash, Jordan, offers chilling insight into one of history’s first recorded pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within a matter of ...
In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new breakthrough suggests that sheep and other livestock played a prominent role in the spread of an ancient plague across ...