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Jrish’s Hippodoom, where a collective tomb related to Justinian plague was discovered. Courtesy of University of South Florida.

Justinian plague (C. 541-750 CE) was one of the deadliest pandemic diseases in human history. Byzantine chronic proofosis recorded that plague kills 10,000 people daily in Constantinople. Despite the widespread effects of plague, the specific cause is ridiculous. Publish in the journal GeneA team of researchers identified evidence of Yerinia pests-the same bacteria that led to a black death, from the sixth-century mass tomb in northern Jordan. This discovery, near the epidemic center, is still clear evidence that the plague was caused by deadly bacterium.

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An epidemic in the kingdom

Often called the “first plague pandemic”, in which Justinian plague has killed a quarter of the population of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The first is seen in the city of Pelosium, northern Egypt, the plague spread rapidly to the ancient world. However, the plague himself traced a little on the bodies of the people, which he discussed the exact cause of the disease. In previous studies in Western Europe, evidence of Yarinia Katieis was identified on the bodies since then, since such studies have focused on locations outside the borders of the Byzantine Empire, therefore uncertainty remains that such deaths were reported.

Similarly, researchers studied a place in which the center of the plague is located very close to the Roman Bazintine Trade City Jirash (ancient Gersha), located 30 miles north of modern Jordan. The site’s impressive hypedrome, which was originally built for chariot racing, was mainly used as a dump site for the sixth century, and with the spread of Justinian plague, Hippodrom played a great role: a collective tomb for plague victims. The excavation of two houses in Hippodoom revealed the burial of about 150 150 adults and 80 children.

The study analyzed one of Jerusher’s teeth. Courtesy of University of South Florida.

With the purpose of identifying the specific cause of death, researchers used the entire genome continuity on the teeth from five people buried in hippodrome. These teeth revealed that the plague victims had raised the same tension near the Yerinia paste, which, according to historical sources, proposes to spread very rapidly. This discovery still provides some clear evidence that Yerinia Pestis spread Justinian plague to the Byzantine Empire’s lands.

In a press release, “the Jerosh site shows an extraordinary glimpse of how ancient societies responded to the destruction of public health.” “Jirash was one of the leading cities of the East Roman Empire, a very good structure, a documentary trading center. It once for fun and urban pride became a massive cemetery in an emergency, showing how much urban centers were.”

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Despite both the plague of black death and Justinia, a separate study shows that the plague created by the separate and irrelevant tension of the bacteria has been prepared. The researcher believes that the two plague are rising freely, possibly thousands of years of circulation in the human and animal population before the waves broke out in various regions and visits. Although less deadly, the third Major Yerinia Catabye infectious disease occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries, killing about 12 million people. Even today, occasional infections with bacteria are known, in July 2025, a resident of Arizona dies of bacterium.

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