Scientific discoveries – mummy scientists have found that the plague struck Egypt long before Europe – UNIAN
Researchers have discovered the first evidence of the spread of bubonic plague outside Europe and Asia in an Egyptian mummy.
An Egyptian mummy has revealed that the bubonic plague spread to North Africa thousands of years before it began terrorizing Europe.
Scientists examined an Egyptian mummy from a museum in Turin and discovered that the man died 3,290 years ago from one of the most terrible diseases in human history – the bubonic plague, writes Interesting Engineering. This suggests that its presence on the planet is much older than thought.
In addition, there had previously been no physical evidence indicating the presence of the deadly bacterium outside of Europe and Asia. Now the results of the study of the mummy from Turin shed new light…
