It all started with a natural disaster
Now that you’ve heard all the terrible things that happened in the year 536, there’s only one question left: what unleashed such a series of unfortunate events? Well, the answer lies in the ice sheets of Iceland and Greenland.
In 2013, a group of researchers discovered evidence of some massive volcanic eruptions whose ash was likely the leading cause of the dark fog that blocked the sun for more than a year and the succeeding tragedies that tormented humankind in the 6th Century.
