One of history’s deadliest natural disasters struck near the Persian city of Damghan when a massive earthquake killed an estimated 200,000 people. Entire settlements were flattened as the ground violently ruptured, leaving survivors buried beneath ruins. Occurring in a region along active fault lines, the quake remains the sixth deadliest earthquake ever recorded. With limited scientific understanding and no modern warning systems, communities were defenseless against the catastrophe. The Damghan earthquake stands as a grim reminder of nature’s power and the vulnerability of early civilizations to seismic forces beyond human control.