A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered “the largest known plague pandemic in human history,” according to a new study about ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...

Around 74,000 years ago, a volcano called Toba in Sumatra exploded, and some scientists think it had a serious impact on the ...

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death—the most ...

Despite the fact that Mount Vesuvius triggered one of the most infamous ancient tragedies, not everyone agrees on exactly ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...