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No great equalizer: Young laborers were hit hardest by early modern plague
- April 14, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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A multidisciplinary archaeological team has examined plague burials from a 17th-century monastery turned hospital in Basel, Switzerland, shedding light on how social status impacted plague mortality in Early Modern Europe. Their study, "All equal in the face of death? Life histories of confirmed victims of the last plague epidemic in Basel," is published in the journal Antiquity.
Originally published at Phys.org