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Plague Was Killing People 5,500 Years Ago, Before Cities Even Existed

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Ancient DNA pulled from hunter-gatherer graves in Siberia has shattered the timeline for one of history's deadliest diseases. And that's just one of several major discoveries reshaping what we thought we knew.

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