According to the Bible, the 10th plague to befall Ancient Egypt killed the first born child of every family. Now, new scientific evidence suggests that this may have actually occurred - and that a ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread ...

New research suggests that plague was present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. A new study ...

The monument had been built for an Egyptian grand steward named Harwa in the 7th century BC and it was continually used until it became a plague-burial site in the 3rd Century AD - and was then ...

As the story goes, after the tenth plague, Pharaoh finally acceded to God’s will, and allowed the children of Israel to leave Egypt. Soon after, though, God hardened Pharaoh’s heart ...

But the pharaoh still said no, so God sent ten plagues to Egypt. The final plague was the death of the first born son. Image caption, God told Moses that the Israelites should mark their doorposts ...

struck the Egyptians with ten plagues until the Exodus from Egypt was complete. The first plague that God struck Egypt with was turning the Nile River, the main water source of Egypt and its ...

Taylor Hermes, an assistant professor of anthropology at the U of A, received a grant of €100,000 to research the evolution and spread of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis during the Bronze ...