The Black Death is regarded as the deadliest plague in human history. But despite years of research, its geographic and chronological origin has largely remained a mystery.Now, a new study of ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims claims to have cracked the conundrum by tracing the disease back to 1338 in what is present day Kyrgyzstan. Researchers retrieved ancient DNA traces of the Yersinia pestis plague bacterium from the teeth of three women buried in a medieval Nestorian Christian community in the Chu Valley near Lake Issyk Kul who perished in 1338-1339.
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