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Ancient disease discovered in ancient DNA of Egyptian mummy
And one of those plagues happened in between the era of Egypt's New Kingdom and the Black ... and the Near East in the 6th century AD. China and Mongolia had their own brush with the bubonic ...
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Cyprian Plague victims unearthed in Egypt: Burnt corpses reveal a 3rd century burial plot built to 'prevent the apocalypse'
The 3rd century tomb was used to stop the deadly spread of a pandemic The Cyprian Plague killed 5,000 people ... in a pit in Luxor, Egypt. Kilns used to produce lime to cover the victims were ...