The Plagues of Egypt were a series of calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, God inflicted on Egypt to convince the Pharoah to release the Israelites from slavery.

Radiocarbon dating places the mummy at the end of the Second Intermediate Period ... molecular evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt, as researchers have confirmed that Yersinia ...

The team reached their conclusion after examining a mummy housed in Italy’s Museo Egizio that dates back to the Second Intermediate Period or early New Kingdom ... pestis genome outside Eurasia, ...