Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for ...

Qatar and Jordan make moves, Palestinian cinema and Gaza are drawing attention, Egypt returns to the Un Certain Regard ...

The Book of Exodus recounts the Jewish people’s departure from Egypt on the 15th day of the biblical month of Nisan. On the sixth day ... having lived through Ten Plagues and witnessing God ...

Perhaps a swarm of locusts ravaged ancient Egypt at one point. But how did this happen ... With more insects surrounding rotten meat, diseases might have spread, causing the fifth and sixth plagues.

As the Bible describes, the sixth plague afflicted the Egyptians with boils ... The obvious explanation for this in the context of this theory is the thick ash that fell on Egypt. Finally, the death ...

Egypt and Greece. There was also a strong correlation between the different types of data. Both the smaller case studies, and the larger datasets, showed there was no decrease in population or economy ...

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 ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern ... there was no decline in the 6th century, but rather a new record ...