University of Copenhagen Jun 17 2026 Plague is commonly associated with rats, crowded medieval cities, and the epidemics that swept across Europe during and after the Middle Ages. But a new study published in Nature shows that the disease was already lethal 5,500 years ago, where it killed humans in small, mobile hunter-gatherer communities – long before the rise of agriculture and cities created the conditions usually associated with plague epidemics. An international group of researchers

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