First-Hand Accounts of 536: The Worst Year To Be Alive in History @VoicesofthePast

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Extracts taken from:

The Volcanic Winter of 536
From The Letters of Cassiodorus
Translated by Thomas Hodgkin (1886)
The Nan Shi
Procopius On The Years Following 536
History of the Wars, Translated by H. B. Dewing (1914)
The Chronicle of Michael the Great,
Patriarch of the Syrians (12th century)
Translated from Classical Armenian
by Robert Bedrosian (2013)

Edited, animated and researched by Siji Sheehan
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza: instagram.com/ettore.mazza/?hl=en
Art by Alex Stoica

First-Hand Accounts of 536: The Worst Year To Be Alive in History

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