to consider that outbreaks of the Black Death might have occurred along the Nile, IFL Science notes. Some researchers hypothesize that rats helped Y. pestis gain major ground in Egypt first before ...

This is the first reported prehistoric Y. pestis genome outside Eurasia,' the team noted, 'providing molecular evidence for ...

But the pharaoh still said no, so God sent ten plagues to Egypt. The final plague was the death of the first born son. Image caption, God told Moses that the Israelites should mark their doorposts ...