Today is the first of Nisan reminding us that Passover is just two weeks away. There has been talk online that, on Passover night, many will refer to COVID-19 as ...

The Plagues of Egypt were a series of calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, God inflicted on Egypt to convince the Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery. Although the ...

The bacterium also caused the third plague pandemic between the 19th and 20th centuries. By amassing 601 Y. pestis genome sequences, including modern and ancient strains, ...

Experts have theorized about the bubonic plague’s presence in ancient Egypt for decades. As IFL Science notes, a research team in 2004 found millennia-old fleas at an archeological site in ...

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has swept to a third, six-year term as Egypt’s president, winning 89.6% of votes in an election in which he faced no serious challengers, the National Election Authority ...

Many reports from antiquity about outbreaks of plague mention Egypt as the source of pestilences that reached the Mediterranean. But was this really the case? Researchers from the University of ...

The bacterium also caused the third plague pandemic between the 19th and 20th centuries. By amassing 601 Y. pestis genome sequences, including modern and ancient strains, ...