Plagues plagued the Bronze Age
DNA analysis shows Yersinia pestis strains infected people long before Black Death

PLAGUED Bacterial DNA recovered from seven human skeletons, including this nearly 4,500-year-old find from an Estonian site, indicates that plagues spread through Bronze Age European and Asian populations.
Harri Moora
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