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Hace 2 días · To solve the mystery, the researchers in the new study decided to look for evidence of the plague in more remains. They analyzed DNA in the teeth of 108 people buried in stone tombs in Sweden and ...
Hace 3 días · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
Hace 3 días · In 2013, researchers confirmed earlier speculation that the cause of the Plague of Justinian (541–549 CE, with recurrences until 750) was Y. pestis. This is known as the first plague pandemic.
Hace 5 días · Colorado health officials have confirmed a human case of the plague, the rare bacterial infection infamously known for killing tens of millions in 14th century Europe. Today, it’s easily...
Hace 1 día · such trends and one of the century's traumas: the Great Plague of 541-543. A second implication can be discussed without straining the limits of the present study. If the army became in fact a congeries of peoples, how could its com-manders maintain imperial loyalties, the belief that all must defend a common,
Hace 1 día · Justinian depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian I, who assumed the throne in 527, oversaw a period of Byzantine expansion into former Roman territories. Justinian, the son of an Illyro-Roman peasant, may already have exerted effective control during the reign of his uncle, Justin I (518–527).
Hace 5 días · New research based on ancient DNA indicates that the plague might have been responsible for the Neolithic decline in Northern Europe around 5,000 years ago. This groundbreaking study, published in the journal Science, examined DNA from human bones and teeth found in Scandinavian tombs.
