Discovering a 5,000-year-old tomb, discovering the oldest disaster
The ancient grave of a 20-year-old girl who died about 5,000 years ago has just been excavated in Sweden, revealing the cause of the mass death.
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According to Phys, using DNA testing, scientists discovered the oldest traces of plague bacteria in the world.
A team of archaeologists and researchers from the University of Gothenburg found the remains of a young girl in Falköping, Sweden, estimated to date back 5,000 years.
According to scientists, this discovery could explain the first epidemic outbreak from Europe to Asia, through trade routes.
This girl died at a time when Neolithic communities across Europe were seriously depleted in numbers for a mysterious reason.
The bacteria that killed the young girl was an ancient strain of Yersinia pestis, the plague bacterium that caused one of the most devastating pandemics in human history.
“Previous findings indicated that Yersinia pestis originated in Asia. But traces of the bacteria were found so long ago in Falköping. This was very surprising,” said Karl-Göran Sjögren, a researcher at the University of Gothenburg.
“We think the first plague came from northern cultures on the Black Sea, hundreds of years ago. The virus spread to both the West and the East.”
By analyzing various data, researchers discovered that different strains of plague circulated among humans in Eurasia between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago.
As a result, the European population shrank dramatically. “The reason why the plague spread so quickly was because humans were already quite developed at the time, connecting many human communities together in a large area,” says Karl-Göran Sjögren.
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