Its precise origin inside Egypt is uncertain, but the anthropogenically mummified person was radiocarbon-dated from the end of the Second Intermediate Period to the start of the New Kingdom.
“A shotgun metagenomics method was first used to mummy bone tissue and intestinal material. As a result, we found Y.
pestis DNA in both samples, suggesting that the pathogen had wide tissue tropism at an already advanced stage of disease development.
“This is the first reported prehistoric Y. pestis genome outside Eurasia providing molecular evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt, although we cannot infer how widespread the disease was during this time.”
You could assume that because we have contemporary technology and cleanliness, the Black Death is a thing of the past and that.
The last time we had to deal with it was in the Middle Ages. That isn’t entirely accurate, however. Even as recently as 2015,
