Archaeologists obtained samples to examine the male mummified body, which is now kept at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. They were shocked to discover that,
The intestinal fluid and bone tissue were indeed connected to the Black Death. The bacterium that causes the bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, was detected in the samples.
The fact that this is the first time it has been discovered outside of mediaeval Europe and Asia only serves to highlight how significant the find is.
“Here, we report the presence of Y. pestis DNA in an ancient Egyptian mummy of an adult male from the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin,
Italy,” the archaeology team said in a report to the European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association.
