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

Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy.

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 ...

Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially ...

A team tested the ancient mummy dating back more than 3,000 years and discovered the bubonic plague in his bone tissue and ...

Previous research has suggested that plague had been present in Egypt for decades, but there has been no solid ... However, the existence of the Black Death could not be confirmed without DNA evidence ...

But without physical evidence that someone in ancient Egypt died of the Black Death, researchers couldn’t back up these thought-provoking inquiries. Now, they can point to the mummy that was ...

A shark attack off Egypt's Red Sea coast killed a tourist and injured another, authorities said Sunday, with an Italy foreign ministry source identifying both as Italian nationals.

First striking then, the Black Death continued to wipe out populations into the 1900s ... Vague apparitions of the disease have surfaced in Ancient Egypt, most notably in a 3,500-year-old medical text ...