Catastrophe

Written records from China, Italy, Palestine and many other countries suggest a huge catastrophe blighted the world in 535AD. But the cause of it has been uncertain. Was it a comet? An asteroid? A volcano? Archaeologist David Keys reveals the latter is to blame for the Dark Ages of famine and plague that shaped the world order of today.

2.3/5

19991 sæson

SpændingDokumentarHistorisk

2.3/5

19991 sæson

Medvirkende: Piers Gibbon

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Sæson 1

2 episoder

1. Catastrophe: The Day The Sun Went Out

Could an unrecorded massive explosion of the volcano Krakatoa be responsible for the cataclysmic extreme weather events of 535-536 A.D. that resembled a nuclear winter.

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50min

26. jul. 1999

2. Catastrophe: How The World Changed

How the suspected extreme weather events of 535-536 A.D. brought about world wide famine, helped a plague epidemic hit Asia and Europe and indirectly influenced the fall of Ancient Rome and Arthurian England and the emergence of Islam.

13+

33min

2. aug. 1999

Catastrophe

SpændingDokumentarHistorisk

2.3/5

19991 sæson

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