An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague ... Death might have occurred along the Nile, IFL Science notes. Some researchers hypothesize that rats helped Y. pestis gain major ground in ...

Malaria is not ordinarily much of a killer, but in Upper Egypt last week it was as lethal as the plague. Accepted estimate was that in two years it has caused about 86,000 deaths in Qena and Aswan ...

But the pharaoh still said no, so God sent ten plagues to Egypt. The final plague was ... their doorposts with lamb's blood so that the angel of death could 'pass over' their houses and spare ...