Curse of the Ancients

Sky History 2

1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Friday 25 April

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Professor Alice Roberts looks at one of the most cursed periods in European history - the Middle Ages. Archaeologists reveal how wars, such as the Mongol invasion of Hungary, the Black Death that wiped out up to half of Europe’s population, and climate change causing cataclysmic floods. With such calamities, Western society was on the verge of collapse, but through these catastrophes the foundation for the modern world were laid