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How Ancient DNA Traced the Black Death to Central Asia
How Ancient DNA Traced the Black Death to Central AsiaDNA from teeth in a London cemetery helped establish which bacterium caused the Black Death. Earlier graves in present-day Kyrgyzstan then connected a local epidemic to the pandemic's ancestry. Edward and Lily explain how researchers identified the infection and why nearby wild rodents matter to its origin.Edward and Lily unpack the evidence…
Duration: 6:41
- The Black Death decoded
- genome-and-find-the-mother-of-all-plagues- Origins of the Black Death identified
- century central Eurasia
- nationalgeographic.com
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