One of the oldest finds at Lendbreen are four broken parts of a Bronze Age ski that fit together ... after which trade ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread through prehistoric farming communities ...

The remains of a sheep that lived in a Bronze Age human settlement 4,000 years ago were assessed and an ancestor of the ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an important clue for how plague could transmit within pastoralist communities ...

A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The horror bug that previously wiped out half of Europe in the Black Death is ...

A UK health agency has admitted to an error after incorrectly stating that a person had recently contracted bubonic plague. Best known for causing the Black Death ...

The UK recently experienced a bubonic plague scare due to a mistakenly reported human case, bringing to mind the historical devastation of the 'Black Death.' Pexels A wave of concern has swept ...

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