According to the Bible, the 10th plague to befall Ancient Egypt killed the first born child of every family. Now, new scientific evidence suggests that this may have actually occurred - and that a ...

Scientists have discovered the DNA of the bacterium Yersinia pestis in a mummy from Egypt dating back approximately 3,300 ...

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 ...

An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death terrorized Europe. Researchers analyzed an Egyptian mummy from a museum in ...

Known as "Pesach" in Hebrew, Passover commemorates pivotal events in the Book of Exodus. Jews celebrate the freeing of ...

The monument had been built for an Egyptian grand steward named Harwa in the 7th century BC and it was continually used until it became a plague-burial site in the 3rd Century AD - and was then ...

The holiday of Passover, commemorating the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt after ... and the death of the firstborn. Each and every one of the ten plagues could have been averted if Pharoah ...

But the pharaoh still said no, so God sent ten plagues to Egypt. The final plague was the death of the first born son. Image caption, God told Moses that the Israelites should mark their doorposts ...