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Mass grave in Jordan reveals the horror of the first documented plague

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Nearly 1,500 years ago, a deadly plague swept the Mediterranean, and a mass grave in Jerash provides rare evidence of large-scale human mortality in a major Byzantine city

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A Mass Grave in Jordan Where Hundreds of Bodies Were Buried in Days Reveals the Impact of the First Recorded Pandemic in History

“A plague looms over us” was repeated again and again in ancient Jordan 1,500 years ago. The dead were piled up everywhere because of a mysterious disease that began to decimate this society of the Mediterranean Levant and threatened to leave marked an entire civilization. Continue reading...

·Granada, Spain
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Mass grave in Jordan reveals the horror of the first documented plague

Nearly 1,500 years ago, a deadly plague swept the Mediterranean, and a mass grave in Jerash provides rare evidence of large-scale human mortality in a major Byzantine city

·Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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