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

Scientists have confirmed that Yersinia pestis, the bacterium behind later plagues like the Black Death, caused the Justinian ...

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

A new study has found direct genetic evidence pointing to the cause of the devastating "Plague of Justinian" first described nearly 1,500 years ago. Reports of the disease first came around 541 CE in ...

Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world's first recorded pandemic that swept through the ...

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

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

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 ...

Ancient trash heaps recently yielded some clues about how the Plague of Justinian, part of a one-two punch with volcanic climate havoc, devastated commercial farming at the fringes of the ...