The sixth of the ten plagues was an uncomfortable skin condition described as "an inflammation breaking out in boils on human and beast throughout the land of Egypt." Some researchers claim that ...

Many reports from antiquity about outbreaks of plague mention Egypt as the source of pestilences that reached the Mediterranean. But was this really the case? Researchers from the University of ...

The Hebrew Bible does not number the plagues of Egypt, but the number ten has been canonized in Jewish and Christian tradition, and a list of the ten plagues appears in the Jewish Passover ...

Apart from its spread through Europe between 1346 and 1353, the bubonic plague is believed to be the root cause of the Eastern Roman Empire’s Plague of Justinian in the 6th century CE ...

A later form of this same pathogen caused the Justinian Plague of the 6th century AD and the 14th ... already had arisen in places like Egypt and Mesopotamia. The populations of Scandinavia ...