Old Egyptian Mummy With ‘Black Death’ DNA, May Have Spread by Fleas on Nile Rats Researchers have finally managed to confirm ...

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the ...

An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death ...

A baker’s dozen of mummies with golden tongues and fingernails have been discovered in 2,000-year-old tombs in middle Egypt.

Most notably, as IFL Science reports, a 5,000-year-old skeleton in Russia had clearly perished from one of the most fatal diseases in history. And so did the Egyptian mummy researchers recently ...

An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old, may have died from the bubonic plague, providing the first genetic evidence of the disease outside the Eurasian continent, new research shows. The finding ...

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 ...

MORE than a dozen Egyptian mummies embellished with gold tongues and fingernails have been uncovered by archaeologists. Surrounded by ancient amulets, the colourful 2,000-year-old tombs were found ...

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth have gone on display in Russia as scientists carry out research on the animal.