4,000-year-old sheep tooth sheds light on enigmatic Eurasian plague
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Aug 11 2025 Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known only from ancient DNA, this enigmatic 'LNBA plague' lineage has left scientists puzzled about its likely zoonotic origin and transmission. In a new study published in Cell, this ancient plague is identified in an animal for the first time - a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep excavated at the pastoralist site
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