These Disasters Wiped Prehistoric Civilizations Off the Map in a Single Day
Some worlds did not fade away over centuries — they were erased between one sunrise and the next. From Pompeii buried alive in hours to a Greek city swallowed whole by the sea in a single night, from a Maya village frozen mid-meal to a comet that may have wiped out an entire Ice Age world, these are ten catastrophes that ended whole civilizations in a single day. Settle in as we count down the disasters that proved no society, however advanced, is ever safe from the patient violence of the Earth. Chapters: 00:00 - Pompeii and Herculaneum 01 03:23 - Akrotiri and the Thera Eruption 34 06:41 - Helike 61 10:10 - Joya de Cerén 87 13:26 - Lajia 107 16:47 - Atlit-Yam 133 20:09 - The Campanian Ignimbrite Super-Eruption 157 23:29 - The Storegga Slide Tsunami 182 27:06 - Tall el-Hammam 210 30:45 - The Younger Dryas Impact 236 #prehistory #ancienthistory #pompeii #vesuvius #atlantis #helike #santorini #minoan #maya #lostcivilizations #archaeology #naturaldisaster #tsunami #volcano #youngerdryas #cometimpact #ancientmysteries #bronzeage #neolithic #cavemandoodle

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