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Ancient disease that wiped out 50 million people found in Egyptian mummy DNA
The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, spread across Europe in the 14th century, wiping out as many as 50 million ...
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Ancient plague mystery: Egyptian mummy reveals DNA secrets
DNA of the Black Death in an ancient mummy Research conducted on the mummy ... how widespread the disease was in the region ...
Bubonic plague discovered in ancient Egyptian mummy DNA
Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially ...
Eerie Egyptian mummy who suffered agonising fate reveals terrifying ‘Black Death’ secret for the first time in millennia
AN EERIE Egyptian mummy who died a horror death has revealed to scientists an unbelievable Black Death secret. It is believed ...
Ancient disease which wiped out 50million people discovered in DNA of Egyptian mummy
A team tested the ancient mummy dating back more than 3,000 years and discovered the bubonic plague in his bone tissue and ...
Egyptian mummy discovered with bubonic plague rewrites history of the notorious Black Death
An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the ...
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3,000-Year-Old Mummy With Bubonic Plague DNA Challenges Black Deaths Origins
An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old ... hinting at the plague's spread by rodents on boats. But DNA evidence like that ...
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3,300-year-old mummy shows Black Death plague struck Egypt way before Europe
Researchers found the first evidence of the bubonic plague outside of Europe and Asia in an Egyptian mummy housed in Turin, ...
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Ancient DNA results end 4000 year old Egyptian mummy mystery in Manchester
is one of the first to successfully use the typing of both mitochondrial and Y chromosomal DNA in Egyptian mummies. Dr Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, said: “The ...
13 mummies with golden tongues and gilded fake nails discovered in Egyptian tomb
A baker’s dozen of mummies with golden tongues and fingernails have been discovered in 2,000-year-old tombs in middle Egypt.
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Belfast's Egyptian mummy 'may have died in violent knife attack'
How did the Egyptian mummy on display in the Ulster Museum die ... but academics now believe she may not even have been Egyptian as DNA tests have revealed she is more genetically similar to ...
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Ancient disease which wiped out 50,000,000 people found in DNA of Egyptian mummy
Samples of 'The Black Death', which wiped out 50 million people in medieval times, were found in an Egyptian mummy ...