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 ... Vague apparitions of the disease have surfaced in Ancient Egypt, most notably in a 3,500-year-old medical text ...

Moses asks the pharaoh to free the Hebrew slaves, but he refuses—and so God inflicts 10 plagues upon Egypt. They are as follows: After the seventh plague, Moses once more tries to appeal to the ...