Black Death began in Central Asia, DNA analysis reveals
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 16, 2022
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Today, he is known only by the inscription on his burial stone: “This is the tomb of the believer Sanmaq. [He] died of pestilence.”
That brief detail provided a tantalizing clue for historian Philip Slavin, an associate professor at the University of Sterling in Scotland. He wondered if Sanmaq—along with 117 . . .
