The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, ...

The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really support this?

The crucial milestone for the Santorini volcano is the year 1613 BC, when the most powerful volcanic eruption ever recorded in history occurred. Specifically, for this island, the entire magma ...

In 1950 the Santorini volcano experienced its last eruption, closing a cycle of volcanic activity that had begun in 1939.

This tiny museum in the heart of Thera houses frescoes and other archaeological treasures found during the excavation of Ancient Akrotiri, which was destroyed by the volcanic eruption that ...

Now, experts have discovered an eerie snapshot of inhabitants fleeing during the so-called Avellino eruption, dated to about 1995 BC. Photos show newly-uncovered footprints, formed as Bronze Age ...

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 ...

Quantities of sulfate in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica dating to about 2910 BC suggested that this cooling followed a volcanic eruption, scientists reported January 16 in the journal ...

MANILA, Philippines — Pressure may be building up and lead to another eruption of Kanlaon Volcano after the detection of more ground swelling, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and ...

Quantities of sulfate in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica dating to about 2910 BC suggested that this cooling followed a volcanic eruption, scientists reported January 16 in the journal ...

“The eruptions are pretty big,” Bill Chadwick, a volcanologist at Oregon State University who studies the fire-spouting formation, told KOIN. Located 300 miles off Oregon’s Coast, the Axial ...