The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...
A new breakthrough suggests that sheep and other livestock played a prominent role in the spread of an ancient plague across Eurasia thousands of years before the famed Black Death. For the first time ...
An international team of researchers, including U of A archaeologist Taylor Hermes, has found the first evidence of a Bronze Age plague infection in a non-human host. The discovery provides a missing ...
A single 4,000-year-old sheep bone, pulled from a windswept burial mound in Central Asia, is forcing scientists to rethink ...