In recent years, a trove of ancient Egyptian finds have been unearthed at key sites, including secret pyramid chambers, ...

Samples of 'The Black Death', which wiped out 50 million people in medieval times, were found in an Egyptian mummy ...

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

However, scientists have discovered that the Black Death originated much earlier. According to recent research, the oldest confirmed case of plague outside of Eurasia was found in an ancient Egyptian ...

An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated ... of the deadly bacterium outside of Europe and Asia. The newly discovered mummy sheds new light on the disease in North Africa and helps ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy, suggesting ... to other parts of the globe. Recent studies uncovered traces of ...

An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death terrorized Europe. Researchers analyzed an Egyptian mummy from a museum in ...

AN EERIE Egyptian mummy who died a horror death has revealed to scientists an unbelievable Black Death secret. It is believed that the 3,290-year-old embalmed remains belonged to a male who ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered several ancient Egyptian tombs containing dozens of mummies—some of which ... found in Ptolemaic-era tombs during recent excavations in Al-Bahnasa, Egypt, an ...