Catastrophe
By David Keys
‘The sun became dark and its darkness lasted for 18 months’. So wrote John of Ephesus recording the Dark Sun event that started in 535AD. Historians have turned a blind eye to this testimony, not knowing how to make sense of it, but here David Keys shows how they were describing a great natural disaster – and one which, he reveals, was the single most important factor in the formation of the modern world.
