While analyzing the skeletons of 46 prehistoric hunter-gatherers unearthed near Siberia's Lake Baikal, researchers found 18 cases of the plague.
All That's Interesting | 26.06.2026 04:45
Though history’s most infamous outbreak of the bubonic plague is the Black Death that killed half of Europe in just seven years during the mid-14th century, this lethal infection has actually been with humankind since before the dawn of recorded history. Now, scientists have just discovered the first known cases of bubonic plague in human history — and they date back a whopping 5,500 years.
