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- 01DNA from seven skeletons in Kara-Djigach, Kyrgyzstan, matched Yersinia pestis, the Black Death bacterium, dated precisely to 1338.
- 02The graveyard headstones are inscribed with the Syriac word for 'pestilence' — the victims named the cause of their own deaths.
- 03This 2022 finding resolved a 700-year debate by placing the Black Death's origin 4,000 kilometers east of Europe.