The discovery sheds new light on the Plague of Justinian, which may have killed 50 million people during the sixth century.

Scientists have unraveled a 1,500-year-old puzzle by identifying the cause of the “Plague of Justinian,” the outbreak ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

For the first time, researchers at USF have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian ...

In an extraordinary breakthrough, scientists have traced the deadly bacterium behind the world’s earliest recorded pandemic to its epicentre for the first time.The Justinian Plague, which devastated ...

With this evidence, researchers can now understand how the plague inundated the Byzantine Empire and set off one of the most ...

Looking at DNA at an arena turned into a mass grave at the epicenter of the outbreak, scientists found a familiar old foe.

Scientists have found the "missing piece" of the puzzle behind the devastating disease that reshaped the Byzantine Empire.

A groundbreaking discovery reveals the genome of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the Justinian Plague, solving a historical mystery of the world's first recorded pandemic.

Scientists solve the mystery of the Justinian Plague. They identify Yersinia pestis as the cause. The plague devastated the Byzantine Empire. DNA from ...

Justinian was born Flavius Peterus Sabbatius, the son of a farmer whose childless uncle was on his way to becoming Emperor Justin I. Justinian was called to the capital in his teens and given the ...

The Throne of Maximian, a 6th-century ivory masterpiece, was a powerful tool of Byzantine propaganda and soft power under ...