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Category: Plague

Plague

Oldest evidence of plague in Britain is over 4,000 years old

UK Natural History Museum The plague was already circulating in Britain thousands of years before the Black Death. New research reveals that Yersinia pestis was widespread across Europe during the Bronze Age, with multiple strains circulating across the continent. The earliest evidence of the plague in Britain has been discovered. Researchers investigating Bronze Age human remains found […]

May 30, 2023

The plague found in the Bronze Age skeletons lacked key genes that the strain which caused the Black Death had.