It marks the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia, indicating that the disease was present in North Africa ...

This groundbreaking discovery reveals the DNA of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the plague, in a mummy from ...

Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian mummy over 3,000 years old, believed to have been a victim of the bubonic plague - ...

It became popular in Europe, and ancient apothecaries ground up mummified remains when demand increased to a point where the ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost ...