10 Prehistoric Pandemics That Wiped Out Entire Civilizations

From a burned Stone Age house packed with the dead to an Andean empire that fell before it ever saw its conqueror, these are the invisible plagues that toppled ten civilizations across five thousand years. Long before anyone understood germs, kings, statesmen, and entire cities vanished into mass graves and lime pits, their stories now pieced back together from ancient DNA, charred bone, and the desperate prayers of the doomed. This is the hidden history of humanity's oldest enemy, and the chilling truth that most of these killers never truly left. Chapters: 00:00 - Hamin Mangha, the House of the Dead 03:02 - The Hittite Plague, the Hand of Nergal 05:58 - The Cucuteni Trypillia Megasite Collapse 09:12 - The Plague of the Philistines 12:17 - The Plague of Cyprian 15:19 - The Cocoliztli Epidemic 18:31 - The Antonine Plague 21:36 - The Justinianic Plague 24:40 - The Plague of Athens 28:00 - The Smallpox Collapse of the Inca Empire #prehistory #pandemic #ancienthistory #plague #lostcivilizations #archaeology #ancientDNA #blackdeath #romanempire #incaempire #hittites #plagueofathens #justinianicplague #cocoliztli #historydocumentary #ancientmysteries #paleopathology #epidemic #deeptime #FossilFred