The Cyprian plague may have struck Nîmes around 270 AD.

Samples of carbonate rock from the Pont du Gard aqueduct reveal a sharp demographic decline.

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Researchers link these traces to the Cyprian plague, a devastating 3rd-century epidemic.

This discovery sheds light on a little-known period in Nîmes' history.

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