European colonizers were thought to have brought leprosy to the Americas, but a new study reveals it existed there for thousands of years and spread by a recently discovered bacteria species.

Explore the colonization of the Americas in the 18th century, a pivotal era marked by European expansion, cultural clashes, and shifting global power. This video delves into the conflicts ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that ...

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the disease was present in Argentina and Canada much earlier ...

Between the 15th and 20th centuries, just 10 European countries colonized nearly the whole world. Colonization brought technological advancement, infrastructure, education, and medical care even ...

Historians have for a long time believed that leprosy was introduced to the Americas by European settlers, but the latest research offers strong evidence to the contrary – suggesting that Indigenous ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS ...

Syphilis originated in the Americas, ancient DNA shows, but European colonialism spread it widely. Kristina Killgrove. Fri, December 20, 2024 at 9:16 PM UTC. 3 min read.

The early history of European colonization of America is often romanticized, but this is far from the messy truth. In reality, colonization was achieved by rival groups of settlers with competing ...

Bob Kelly, professor emeritus of archaeology at UW, excavates a site in Wyoming. Kelly led a new study showing that, if Europeans had arrived in North America a few hundred years earlier, they would ...

The arrival of the first European fleets to the Americas in 1492 marked the introduction of new diseases to the Americas. Leprosy — in the form of the leprae bacterium — was among them.