Plague of Justinian
All the diseases you might have if you lived in a medieval city (video)
The Black Plague, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria, remains one of the deadliest pandemics in human history
Scientific team with Greek expert decodes Bronze Age bubonic plague genome
An international team of researchers headed by Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, with Greek archaeogenticist Maria A. Spyrou, has decoded two 3,800-year-old genomes that suggest a Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague.