DNA Reveals The Genetic History Of The Black Death Bacteria
Two sixth - century skeleton in the closet are giving some huge insights into the murky and roughshod history of the bacterium behind the Black Death . A squad of bioarchaeologists analyzed sample take from the skeletons discovered in Altenerding , an ancient southern German burial site near Munich , who snuff it of the Plague of Justinian . Using “ molecular hint ” from the victims and the first high - reporting genome of the bacterium , they showed that the Justinian pest was make by the same bacterium , Yersinia pestis , as the bubonic plague , or Black Death , that rampaged across Europe in the 14th C ....