The Day Europe’s Deadliest Supervolcano Erupted: Campi Flegrei
For nearly forty thousand years, the traces of a single eruption have remained scattered across Europe, preserved in rock layers, lake sediments, and even polar ice.
Beneath the crowded streets of Naples lies Campi Flegrei, a volcanic system unlike any other. It is not a towering mountain, but a sprawling caldera capable of producing some of the largest eruptions in Earth's recent history. Around thirty nine thousand years ago, it unleashed the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption, an event so powerful that its ash spread across continents, altered ecosystems, and may have influenced one of the most…
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