Eruption of Alaska’s Okmok Volcano Linked to Period of Extreme Cold in Ancient Rome

By NSF Public Affairs on Jul 7, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

  An international team of scientists has found evidence connecting an unexplained period of extreme cold in ancient Rome with an unlikely source: a massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano, located on the opposite side of the Earth. Around the time of Julius Caesar’s death in 44 BCE, written sources describe a period of unusual […]