In an Egyptian mummy radiocarbon-dated from the end of the Second Intermediate Period to the beginning of the New Kingdom (3290 ± 45 years BP; 1686-1449 cal. BC) of unknown provenience in the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. y.p. has been attested recently. More information on the y.p. strain is not yet available.
- F. Maixner / E. Gaul / A. Mussauer / A. Paladin / C. Wurst / M. S. M. Sarhan / M. Samadelli / P. Del Vesco / F. Facchetti / C. Posth / M. Spyrou / A. Zink, The 3,300-year-old Yersinia pestis genome of an ancient Egyptian mummified individual. European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association PPA. – https://hdl.handle.net/10863/44749
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