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Could This Be the Black Death鈥檚 Earliest Victim?

Season 22 Episode 10 | 3m 21s

A spike in gravestones from 1338 in Kyrgyzstan led historian Philip Slavin to theorize that the Black Death may have begun years before it swept through Europe. Inscriptions mentioning 鈥減estilence鈥 begs the question: were these the earliest known victims of the plague?

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