"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light on the early evolution of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for ...

and halted Justinian's dreams of reuniting the Roman Empire. In 396 BCE, as Carthaginian forces laid siege to Syracuse, a devastating plague erupted among their troops. The disease, intensified by ...

archaeology and epidemiology of the so-called Plague of Justinian, the first historically documented pandemic of bubonic plague in history. His most recent publication is Indispensable Immigrants: The ...

In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.

It was the first epidemic of the bubonic plague known as the Plague of Justinian, so named because it appeared during the reign of the Byzantine Justinian. The belief in the Catholic church was ...

In fact, scientists think that it may have been around before the 1300s, as there are records of a similar disease in Rome in 146AD, known as the Justinian plague. The symptoms of the plague were ...

This was further compounded by the Plague of Justinian in 541. Researchers link the fog to volcanic eruptions, with evidence found in ice core samples from the Swiss Alps. The suffering did not ...

The Plague of Justinian, beginning in 541 AD, was a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague, that claimed perhaps a quarter of the eastern Mediterranean population. Further waves of bubonic plague ...