Though history's most infamous outbreak of the bubonic plague is the Black Death that killed half of Europe in just seven ...

The skeletons of nomadic families unearthed in Siberia harbor "Yersinia pestis" bacteria, which challenges theories about conditions needed for the disease to spread ...

Their work represents the oldest detection of plague outbreaks known to researchers, as well as the first unambiguous evidence that early and genetically different Yersinia pestis strains were deadly ...

A new study describes the oldest evidence of a plague outbreak ever found, in a set of skeletons excavated from prehistoric graves in Siberia dating back 5,500 years.

DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that there were no major disease outbreaks before the advent of farming and lar ...

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth.

There were thoughts that early strains may have been mild, but the discovery that the plague killed prehistoric hunter-gatherers contradicts ​those notions.

Ancient DNA rewrites plague history after deadly outbreaks found in Siberia 5,500 years ago - Scientists say the find could provide clues on how pathogens may emerge in the future ...

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Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe’s population in late neolithic times – from around ...