Tian Shan mountains (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Tian Shan mountains

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View of the Tian Shan mountains. Studying ancient plague genomes, researchers traced the origins of the Black Death to Central Asia, close to Lake Issyk Kul, in what is now Kyrgyzstan.

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© Lyazzat Musralina

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The image may only be used in connection with reporting on the article/research by Maria A. Spyrou et al. (2022).

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