Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially ...

Getty Images Analysis of the mummy’s bone tissue revealed traces ... had reached an advanced stage when the victim perished, IFL Science reported. However, it’s unclear if this was an isolated ...

Sheets of gold have been discovered gilding the tongues of more than a dozen mummified Egyptians near modern Al-Bahansa, ...

Researchers Find 'Alien Mummies' That Were Hidden for Over a Millennium, Fingertips Scan Confirmed They Were Not Human ...

The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, spread across Europe in the 14th century, wiping out as many as 50 million ...

Universitat de Barcelona A team of archaeologists discovered a trove of dozens of bodies after digging down to the bottom of a burial shaft, according to Live Science. The mummies themselves date ...

Archaeologists in Italy have found one of the oldest known cases of the bubonic plague, which has caused millions of deaths ...

More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.

Most notably, as IFL Science reports, a 5,000-year-old skeleton in Russia had clearly perished from one of the most fatal diseases in history. And so did the Egyptian mummy researchers recently ...