When a collection of thirty-something skeletons was exhumed from graves in northern Kyrgyzstan in the late 1880s, little did archaeologists know that nearly 130 years later, the remains would reveal new evidence about the origins of the Black Death.
thousands of years before the Black Death ripped around the world in the mid-14th century.
Now, their new research pushes the likely origins of the Black Death even farther east into Central Asia, with DNA evidence from the remains of seven individuals exhumed from two cemeteries in modern-day Kyrgyzstan. In the teeth of three out of the seven skeletons, they found traces of ancient DNA of the plague bacterium,, and matched these skeletons to their headstones using historic diaries of the original excavations.mentioned on the tombstones was indeed caused by plague," says Slavin, the historian.
"We found that the ancient strains from Kyrgyzstan are positioned exactly at the node of this massive diversification event," Spyrou says. "In other words, we found the Black Death's source strain and we even know its exact date."
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