justinianic plague

Glad this is solved. Yersinia pestis is the same bacterium that caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages. Ancient DNA solves Plague of Justinian mystery to rewrite pandemic history "For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of...

Existing mortality estimates assert that the Justinianic Plague (circa 541 to 750 CE) caused tens of millions of deaths throughout the Mediterranean world and Europe, helping to end antiquity and start the Middle Ages. In this article, we argue that this paradigm does not fit the evidence. We...