BYZANTINENIA-New book bt classicist Peter Brown Eye of the needle the follower of Pelgius that wrote that we should get rid if the rich but Augustine says no snd Augustine says that the poor can be prideful too. Also, why has Hagia Sophia stood for 1,300 years the cement is almost Earthquake proof and was discovered again around 1800 and it is similar to Portland cement.
One Plague-the Black Death the end of the middle ages and the early Plague the beginning of the Dark Ages. Proof that maybe the same bacteria.
Researchers find more links between the Black Death and Justinian’s plague
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– December 10, 2012Posted in: News
Researchers from the University of Tuebingen in Germany are uncovering more evidence that is linking the Black Death with earlier plagues. In a comparison of more than 300 contemporary strains of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, with ancient bacterial DNA isolated from victims of the Black Death (1347 – 1351), the researchers found it was associated with a bubonic plague outbreak in the early Middle Ages (8th to 10th centuries AD). The study, now published in PLoS ONE raises strong suspicion that the plague of Justinian, a massive pandemic that struck the Byzantine Empire and parts of Europe, may have been caused by the same bacterium implicated in the Black Death.
After the initial reconstruction of the complete medieval genome of Y.pestis from a Black Death cemetery in London last year, the researchers from the University of Tuebingen used a published genome wide dataset from more than 300 modern Y.pestis strains to reconstruct the relationship of ancient and modern plague bacteria. Due to the well-established age of the ancient remains they were able to date major radiation events in the history of this pathogen that are likely linked to major pandemics in the human population.
The comparison of modern and ancient genomes revealed that of the 311 Y.pestis strains analyzed, 275 trace their ancestry back to the medieval Black Death pandemic in the mid of the 14th century, confirming a previous analysis of 21 complete plague genomes by the same authors in 2011. In the new larger dataset, however, the authors identified an additional cluster of 11 contemporary bacterial strains that branch in the Y.pestis phylogeny between the 7th and 10th centuries, thus suggesting a radiation event of Y.pestis bacteria during a major outbreak. This time period roughly coincides with the Justinian plague, which historical sources suggest took place between the 6th and 8th centuries AD.
Historians have long suspected that the plague of Justinian was a pandemic of bubonic plague but until now little empirical evidence existed. The suggestion that this pandemic was likely also caused by bubonic plague was rather unexpected for the researchers as their previous analysis published in 2011 revealed no evidence for major outbreaks of bubonic plague before the Black Death. “Our new analysis implies that bubonic plague may have been a major killer already in the late Roman Empire.” explains Krause, a Junior professor at the University of Tuebingen specializing in Palaeogenetics. “The plague of Justinian seems like the best candidate for this earlier pandemic”.
The researchers are still looking into further evidence about the development of the Y.pestis bacteria in the early Middle Ages. The article adds that “human mass burials dating to the Justinian era may hold pertinent information to permit a more thorough evaluation of the evolutionary history of this notorious human pathogen.”
The article, ‘Yersinia pestis: New Evidence for an Old Infection‘ is available from the journal PlosOne.
Click here to see our feature on the Black Death
Source: University of Tuebingen
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– December 10, 2012Posted in: News
Researchers from the University of Tuebingen in Germany are uncovering more evidence that is linking the Black Death with earlier plagues. In a comparison of more than 300 contemporary strains of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, with ancient bacterial DNA isolated from victims of the Black Death (1347 – 1351), the researchers found it was associated with a bubonic plague outbreak in the early Middle Ages (8th to 10th centuries AD). The study, now published in PLoS ONE raises strong suspicion that the plague of Justinian, a massive pandemic that struck the Byzantine Empire and parts of Europe, may have been caused by the same bacterium implicated in the Black Death.
After the initial reconstruction of the complete medieval genome of Y.pestis from a Black Death cemetery in London last year, the researchers from the University of Tuebingen used a published genome wide dataset from more than 300 modern Y.pestis strains to reconstruct the relationship of ancient and modern plague bacteria. Due to the well-established age of the ancient remains they were able to date major radiation events in the history of this pathogen that are likely linked to major pandemics in the human population.
The comparison of modern and ancient genomes revealed that of the 311 Y.pestis strains analyzed, 275 trace their ancestry back to the medieval Black Death pandemic in the mid of the 14th century, confirming a previous analysis of 21 complete plague genomes by the same authors in 2011. In the new larger dataset, however, the authors identified an additional cluster of 11 contemporary bacterial strains that branch in the Y.pestis phylogeny between the 7th and 10th centuries, thus suggesting a radiation event of Y.pestis bacteria during a major outbreak. This time period roughly coincides with the Justinian plague, which historical sources suggest took place between the 6th and 8th centuries AD.
Historians have long suspected that the plague of Justinian was a pandemic of bubonic plague but until now little empirical evidence existed. The suggestion that this pandemic was likely also caused by bubonic plague was rather unexpected for the researchers as their previous analysis published in 2011 revealed no evidence for major outbreaks of bubonic plague before the Black Death. “Our new analysis implies that bubonic plague may have been a major killer already in the late Roman Empire.” explains Krause, a Junior professor at the University of Tuebingen specializing in Palaeogenetics. “The plague of Justinian seems like the best candidate for this earlier pandemic”.
The researchers are still looking into further evidence about the development of the Y.pestis bacteria in the early Middle Ages. The article adds that “human mass burials dating to the Justinian era may hold pertinent information to permit a more thorough evaluation of the evolutionary history of this notorious human pathogen.”
The article, ‘Yersinia pestis: New Evidence for an Old Infection‘ is available from the journal PlosOne.
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Off topic but interesting. historians and archelogists find that some of the legends and odd stories in anicent history like Aeneas being the ancestor of the Romans might have an odd truth to it. Its not the Romans but the Estrucians that came to Italy from Asia Minor that might have started Aeneas from Troy to the anicent village of Alba Longa near Rome.