Spockydog Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 The Aftermath: Red Tiger, LynnS, Ran and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zorral Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 This too, until recently, was declared a mission impossible, discovering where and when the 14th century's Great Mortality first emerged. Where Did the Black Death Begin? DNA Detectives Find a Key Clue. By fishing shards of bacterial DNA from the teeth of bodies in a cemetery, researchers found the starting point for the plague that devastated Eurasia, they say. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/health/black-death-plague.html? Quote Where and when did the Black Death originate? The question has been asked for centuries and led to heated debate among historians. Now, a group of researchers reports that it has found the answer in the pulp of teeth from people buried in the 14th century. Based on their analysis of the preserved genetic material, the researchers report that the Black Death arrived in 1338 or 1339 near Issyk-Kul, a lake in a mountainous area just west of China in what is now Kyrgyzstan. The plague first infected people in a small, nearby settlement of traders eight years before it devastated Eurasia, killing 60 percent of its victims. .... Spockydog and maarsen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LynnS Posted June 17, 2022 Author Share Posted June 17, 2022 @Ran - Are you closing this thread or letting it run? Another thread has been opened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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