DNA analysis of seven people who died in the 14th century suggests that the Black Death may have originated in central Eurasia
, killing up to 60% of the populace in some places. Historical records suggest that the bubonic plague emerged from the east: Caffa, on the Crimean peninsula, experienced one of the earliest-recorded outbreaks of plague during a 1346 siege by the army of the Mongol Empire. The Caucasus and other locales in Central Asia have been put forward as potential epicentres.strains, hinting at an East Asian origin for the Black Death. “There were all kinds of hypotheses in the literature.
To determine whether the burials held any relevance to the later Black Death, Slavin worked with Krause to track down the remains from the Kyrgyz cemetery — which had been excavated in the 1880s and 1890s and moved to St Petersburg, Russia.
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