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 suffere… ...

The oldest confirmed case of the plague outside of Eurasia has been detected in an ancient Egyptian mummy. Dating back to around 3,290 years ago, the embalmed remains belong to a male individual ...

The unearthing of an ancient Egyptian mummy has revealed a terrifying bubonic plague that wreaked havoc on humanity before the infamous Black Death swept across Europe. The earliest confirmed case ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Experts have theorized about the bubonic plague’s presence in ancient Egypt for decades. As IFL Science notes, a research team in 2004 found millennia-old fleas at an archeological site in ...

Displaying ancient Egyptian mummies in museums is morally wrong and should be made illegal, according to MPs. The all-party parliamentary group for Afrikan Reparations has said displaying Egyptian ...

What do Egyptian mummies smell like, ... He cited the case of black-looking sarcophagi that were not originally black: The pistachio resin that covered them, yellowish at the outset, ...

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 suffere… ...

The bubonic plague – also known as the Black Death – is caused by a thoroughly nasty bacterium called Yersinia pestis, and had its heyday in the 14th century when it spread across Europe ...