A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

Five thousand years ago, a massive volcanic eruption dimmed the sun over northern Europe, causing a Neolithic Danish community to offer sun stones in the hope of bringing back the light and saving ...

Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual sacrifices coincided with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout Northern Europe. 4,900 years ago ...

With their help, Iversen and Nielsen were able to link the deposition of the sun stones to a volcanic eruption that had been detected in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. Ice cores are long ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious ... More information: Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark. Antiquity.

which demonstrates that depositions honouring the sun is an ancient phenomenon, which we encounter again in South Scandinavia during the climate disaster caused by a volcanic eruption in the year ...