A 5,000-year-old mass grave harbors the oldest plague bacteria ever found

Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 11:12 in Paleontology & Archaeology

DNA from an ancient strain of the plague-causing bacterium could help uncover the origins of the deadly disease.

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