A Closer Look at an Elusive Ancient Plague

This epidemic was known as Plague of Justinian—it occurred between 541 and 750 A.D., and is one of the earliest known ...

Mass burial site in Jordan offers new insights into history's first major pandemic

Researchers believe this discovery provides a unique and important opportunity to understand the impact of one of the world's ...

Ancient Jordan mass grave reveals human impact of first known pandemic

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious malady that would shape both a society and an era of civilization.
La Brújula Verde

The first mass grave of the Justinianic Plague discovered in Jordan at the ancient hippodrome of Jerash, rewriting the history of the pandemic

The phrase a plague is upon us must have echoed frequently in ancient Jordan, where a mysterious affliction cut down ...

Mass grave in Jordan sheds new light on world’s earliest recorded pandemic

Researchers tell ‘human story’ about crisis during plague of Justinian, which killed millions in Byzantine empire ...
The News International

Jordan discovery rewrites history of world’s first plague pandemic

The US researchers have discovered the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s first proven pandemic, the plague of Justinian , that killed millions of people in the Byzantine ...
Los Angeles Times

Longtime Gazan refugees still trapped in dismal Jordan camp warn of Trump resettlement plan

JERASH, Jordan — Izzaat Al-Hindi trudged down a passageway of the Jerash Refugee Camp, navigating potholes, garbage piles and drab, dilapidated buildings. He still remembers the day his family fled ...