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 ...

New research suggests that a combination of volcanic activity, cold summers and famine brought the deadly plague to Europe.

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

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how these populations moved between islands on treacherous stretches of sea is ...

Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees trees lies the strongest evidence yet for what set the Black Death in ...

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

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 Chauvet-Pont D'Arc cave is one of the most famous underground caverns in the world, housing one of the oldest and best-preserved collections of prehistoric cave paintings ever discovered. Now, ...

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

"Explosive volcanism could repeatedly seed low latitudes with ice and ash, producing buried or insulated ice deposits that help explain the excess hydrogen signals measured near the equator." Ancient ...