Researchers excavated a 4,000-year-old sheep tooth from Russia and found that it was infected by the Late Neolithic Bronze ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early ...

Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

Researchers have identified the first evidence of the Late Neolithic Bronze Age plague in a 4,000-year-old sheep from Arkaim, ...

Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The ...

Sheep helped spread an early form of the plague, suggests new research. The bacterium that causes bubonic plague has been ...

Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later.

For the first time, archeologists and anthropologists have identified this ancient plague in an animal: a 4,000-year-old ...