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Pestilence and population shifts

Summary by The-past.com
The discovery of a mass grave in the Jordanian city of Jerash (ancient Gerasa) has provided evidence of the impact on the population of the Justinian Plague. A newly published study of the burial site has revealed that at least 230 individuals were hastily buried on top of each other, rather than in individual graves, within the city’s abandoned hippodrome
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the-past.com broke the news in on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
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