Modern historians are still unravelling the mystery of the catastrophic Bronze Age collapse—and the evidence they've uncovered paints a chilling picture about the moment that civilization collapsed.
The Samburu live a primitive lifestyle, sleeping in mud huts and gathering food from the land. But their most widely practiced tradition is dangerous, controversial—and disturbing.
Seventy-four thousand years ago, deep in what is now Sumatra, a supervolcano erupted with a fury that darkened the sky, choked the air, and froze the planet. Humanity was to die, but against all odds, we endured. Let’s start from the beginning.
