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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Thus says the Lord, 'By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood. The fish in ...

Based on this analysis, the researchers suggest that neither climate change nor the plague would have caused a collapse in the 6th century, as some historians ... (modern Israel and the West Bank) and ...