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The "Plague Of Justinian" May Have Been The First Pandemic. DNA At A Mass Grave Has Finally Identified Its Cause.

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 ...
Christianity Today

Justinian I and Theodora I

What many previous emperors before had failed to do, "we have decided now to grant to the world, with the help of Almighty God," announced the ambitious Justinian I with his wife, Theodora. Not ...
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Dead Bodies Filled a Mass Grave When the First Plague Pandemic Struck This Early Medieval City. New Research Explores the Identity of the Victims

Researchers analyzed isotopes and DNA in the teeth of remains found in a mass grave from the Plague of Justinian, which swept ...
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DNA confirms Yersinia pestis as cause of the first recorded pandemic 1,500 years ago

Two articles report the first direct genomic evidence that Yersinia pestis caused the Plague of Justinian and together revised views on how pandemics arise, recur, and spread, reported El Comercio.
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5c Tribonian Presenting Pandects to Justinian I single

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1,500-year-old Christian basilica built under Roman Emperor Justinian discovered

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) have discovered an early ...
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10c Tribonian Presenting Pandects to Justinian I single

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