Science Alert  August 6, 2022 The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis, which was involved in some of the most destructive historical pandemics circulated across Eurasia at least from the onset of the 3rd millennium BCE but the challenging preservation of ancient DNA in warmer climates has restricted evidence from culturally prominent regions such as the Eastern Mediterranean is currently lacking. An international team of researchers (Germany, Greece, USA – Temple University) presented genetic evidence for the presence of Y. pestis and Salmonella enterica, the causative agent of typhoid/enteric fever, from this period of transformation in Crete, detected at the cave site […]