DNA analysis reveals source of Black Death ...Egypt

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(CNN) – Tombstones in what’s now Kyrgyzstan have revealed tantalizing details about the origins of the Black Death, the world’s most devastating plague outbreak that is estimated to have killed half of Europe’s population in the space of seven years during the Middle Ages. The source of that pandemic has been debated by historians for centuries, but the inscribed tombstones — some of which referred to a mysterious pestilence — and genetic material from bodies exhumed from two grave sites that date back to the 13th century have provided some concrete answers to this long-standing question. Researchers first excavated the burial sites in the 1880s. The tombstone inscriptions, written in the Sy

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