Medievalists.net » Red Sea http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Red Sea and the Port of Clysma. A Possible Gate of Justinian’s Plague http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/10/red-sea-port-clysma-possible-gate-justinians-plague/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/10/red-sea-port-clysma-possible-gate-justinians-plague/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:12:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48197 The aim of this study is to present the sea and land commercial routes of the Byzantine Egypt and their role in the dissemination of the plague bacteria Yersinia pestis from the Red Sea to Mediterranean ports. The Mediterranean port of Pelusium was considered as the starting point of the first plague pandemic...

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