Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, sending an enormous plume of tiny sun-reflecting particles high into ...

Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached an altitude of more than 4,300 meters, was the scene of the ...

Such an event, according to climate professor Dr. Markus Stoffel, could trigger 'climate chaos' similar to the 1815 eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora. That eruption released 24 cubic miles ...

In April 1815, the eruption of Tambora Volcano in Indonesia — one of the largest in recorded history — blasted ash and gases into the atmosphere purportedly causing widespread cooling and crop ...

Some 69 of these eruptions were larger than the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 in Indonesia—the largest recorded eruption in human history. This data showed that some kind of eruption took place ...

Narrator: In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted in Indonesia, killing an estimated 92,000 people. It was the biggest eruption in recorded history. And yet, Tambora was about one-seventh the size of the ...

According to the team, there is a high chance that a connection exists between the volcanic eruption, the subsequent changes in climate, and the ritual sun stone sacrifices. In addition to a ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...