Plague is commonly associated with rats, crowded medieval cities, and the epidemics that swept across Europe during and after the Middle Ages. But a new study published in Nature shows that the disease was already lethal 5,500 years ago, when it killed humans in small, mobile hunter-gatherer com...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ancient-dna-uncovers-deadly-plague.html)