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

Malaria is not ordinarily much of a killer, but in Upper Egypt last week it was as lethal as the plague. Accepted estimate was that in two years it has caused about 86,000 deaths in Qena and Aswan ...

As far as explanations go, "magic stick" is not the most satisfying, but it's about all you get in the Bible for how the Nile turned blood red, the first of the Plagues of Egypt. Though the ...

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, ...

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, ...