Italy's Phlegraean Fields is a hotspot of volcanic activity—an ever-shifting landscape pocketed with acidic hot springs. This ...

The Santorini resident fears the impact of ongoing earthquakes on the Greek island, popular with tourists for its ...

A series of earthquakes on Santorini has prompted thousands of people to leave the Greek tourist island since early February ...

Increased volcanic activity in Greece’s famed tourist hotspot of Santorini has prompted the country’s civil protection ...

All thinking citizens who visit the mighty Pompeii * exhibition at the National Museum of Australia will have shudder-making ...

Northern California's Sáttítla Highlands are a testament to the region's volcanic past, with the landscape dramatically ...

Pompeii, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site, was once a thriving Roman city before it was engulfed by volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius ... director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. “It is an ...

TERNATE, Indonesia: Thousands of people declined on Thursday (Jan 16) a government-led evacuation in eastern Indonesia where a volcano has been spewing smoke and ash, arguing that they are ...

These practices resonate with later examples, such as the Nordic Bronze Age sun chariot and the gold hoards deposited during another volcanic winter in 536 AD. “The sunstones are completely ...

Archaeologists and climate scientists from the University of Copenhagen can now show that these ritual sacrifices coincided with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed ...

Hundreds of mysterious engraved “sun stones” unearthed in Denmark may have been ceremonially buried because a volcanic eruption in about 2900 BC made the sun disappear. A total of 614 stone ...