Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once moved across Eurasia. A tiny sheep tooth found at the Bronze Age site of Arkaim ...

A new breakthrough suggests that sheep and other livestock played a prominent role in the spread of an ancient plague across Eurasia thousands of years before the famed Black Death. For the first time ...

Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known only from ancient DNA, this enigmatic 'LNBA plague' lineage has left ...

A prehistoric form of Black Death seems to have run through Eurasia during the Bronze Age. The cause behind this Black Death precursor was identified as the Late Neolithic Bronze Age (LNBA) plague ...

Sheep may have played a major role in a prehistoric plague outbreak. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 11, 2025 11:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

IN a paper “On Dental Encrustations and the Socalled ‘Gold-plating’ of Sheep's Teeth,” published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (August 25, 1920), Mr. Thos. Steel gives ...

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A sheep tooth from Bronze Age Arkaim revealed the earliest known Yersinia pestis infection in a domesticated animal.

DURING the early part of the war the transport of sheep about the country districts was strictly regulated so that a local butcher could state definitely in which locality his meat had been fed. I ...