{"id":52,"date":"2026-04-23T21:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/260423031540-htm\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:44:05","slug":"260423031540-htm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/260423031540-htm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient mass grave reveals how a pandemic wiped out a city 1,500 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history\u2019s first pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within days, revealing how the Plague of Justinian devastated entire communities. The findings show that people who usually lived spread out across regions were suddenly concentrated in death. It\u2019s a powerful reminder that pandemics don\u2019t just spread disease\u2014they reshape how societies live and collapse.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history\u2019s first pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within days, revealing how the Plague of Justinian devastated entire communities. The findings show that people who usually lived spread out across regions were suddenly concentrated in death. It\u2019s a powerful reminder that pandemics don\u2019t just spread disease\u2014they reshape how societies live and collapse.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[34,32,33,35],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}