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RoutaOps t1_j2m3k4e wrote
Reply to comment by FestiveMelon135 in Ancient Chinese text reveals earliest known record of auroral display, described as a ‘five-colored light’ event in either 977 or 957 BCE by marketrent
There wasn't really light pollution as we have today, and if the sun is active enough, you can see auroras as far south as Spain in Europe too.
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Reply to Ancient Chinese text reveals earliest known record of auroral display, described as a ‘five-colored light’ event in either 977 or 957 BCE by marketrent
Cro-Magnon cave paintings are believed to be the first known display of auroras and are about 30,000 years old.
also:
>The oldest known auroral citing was written in 2600 B.C. in China: >"Fu-Pao, the mother of the Yellow Empire Shuan-Yuan, saw strong >lightning moving around the star Su, which belongs to the >constellation of Bei-Dou, and the light illuminated the whole area." >Thousands of years later, in 1570 A.D., a drawing of the aurora >depicted candles burning above the clouds.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/aurora_history.html