The 3rd century tomb was used to stop the deadly spread of a pandemic The Cyprian Plague killed 5,000 people ... in a pit in Luxor, Egypt. Kilns used to produce lime to cover the victims were ...
In 541, bubonic plague hit the Roman city of Pelusium in Egypt. Called the Plague of Justinian, it moved quickly, killing one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire ...
"Observers linked outbreaks of plague in Syria, Iraq and Egypt up through 1260 to the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, where epidemic disease was reported even among the Mongol troops." ...