What Ancient Humans Did When the Sun Disappear ed for Days

Imagine waking up and the sun never comes. Not for a day, but for weeks. In 536 AD a volcanic cloud dimmed the sun across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and in the Arctic the sun vanishes every winter. So how did ancient humans survive the dark? In this video: guarding the fire, living on stored food, the Inuit qulliq lamp in the polar night, the Japanese myth of Amaterasu, and the ancient monuments of Newgrange and Stonehenge built to watch the sun return. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 The sun never came 0:22 536 AD – the year the sun went dim 0:58 Part 1 – Guard the fire 1:20 Part 2 – Live on stored food 1:38 Part 3 – The polar night 2:46 Part 4 – The sun myths 3:23 Part 5 – Stones that watch the sun 3:59 What ancient humans did 4:26 Would you survive? 💬 If the sun disappeared for a week, would you survive? Tell me in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe to When Humans Began for more stories about how our ancestors survived. #History #AncientHistory #WhenHumansBegan