Reconstructing the sixth century plague from a victim
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 16:11
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Before the infamous Black Death, the first great plague epidemic was the Justinian plague, which, over the course of two centuries, wiped out up to an estimated 50 million (15 percent) of the world's population throughout the Byzantine Empire—and may have helped speed the decline of the eastern Roman Empire.