Episodes

For nearly a century, humans forgot their glorious past and huddled in a state of ignorance and fear. Scientists now believe that the early Dark Ages may have been triggered by an actual event that occurred around 535 A.D. At the center of a stunningly complex chain of events seems to be “a loud bang” – a volcanic explosion equal to “two thousand million Hiroshima size bombs.”

Could a violent volcanic eruption of Krakatoa be responsible for the climatic cataclysm that hit Earth in 535 A.D., causing two years of darkness, famine, drought and disease, and did this lead to emergence of new nations and religions?