The plague is much older than scientists thought

Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 17:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Brooks HaysCAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- New analysis of fossilized teeth suggests the bubonic plague first appeared during the Bronze Age, thousands of years before the disease decimated Europe.

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