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 ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the world's first recorded pandemic—in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the ...

This video examines the first plague pandemic and how it hit the Eastern Roman Empire under Justinian. It shows how the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Justinian Plague, which lasted from 541AD to 750AD, killed tens of millions of people and reshaped the Byzantine Empire, but ...

Learn how DNA from teeth found at a mass grave unraveled the mystery of the world's first plague pandemic. Long before COVID-19 swept over the globe, the Plague of Justinian gave rise to widespread ...

Key point: The plague’s total death toll is estimated to lie between 25 and 50 million—in other words, between one out of every eight, and one out of every four humans then living on Earth. Justinian ...

Justinian, emperor of Rome from 527-565, was famous for two things. First, he had the misfortune to be emperor during the outbreak of a pandemic that would ultimately bear his name. This devastating ...