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ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ researcher discovered the first evidence that communities in Sicily had horses and were consuming horse meat as early as 4,000 years ago.

Faculty joins project to rewrite history of plague

Maroulis Professor of Byzantine History, Michael Decker, is at the center of a groundbreaking discovery. An interdisciplinary team from ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ and FAU has uncovered the first genomic proof that Yersinia pestis, the plague bacterium, was present in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Plague of Justinian (AD 541–750).

A University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬â€“led team reports that DNA evidence from a >200-person mass grave at Jerash (modern Jordan) identifies Yersinia pestis and provides the first Mediterranean mass-burial confirmation of the Plague of Justinian, reframing it as a lived social crisis as well as a biological one.

History professor David Johnson decided it was time to take the stories in the University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬'s collection and share them with the public.