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What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history – and the human response to them

  • Written by Charlotte Roberts, Professor of Archaeology, Durham University
imageDead men do tell tales through their physical remains.AP Photo/Francesco Bellini

The previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19 – the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic plague (1342-1353), the Justinian plague (541-542) – don’t seem that long ago to archaeologists. We’re used to thinking about...

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