Source Of 13th Century Volcanic Calamity Discovered

A tale of an Indonesian volcano, a monk, and the mass graves of London. Originally published: Oct 1 2013 - 3:30pm, Inside Science News Service By: Joel N. Shurkin, ISNS Contributor (ISNS) -- The Benedictine monk Matthew Paris knew that 1258 was a really bad year. Winter seemed to last forever. The sky was always dark. There were no crops, he wrote, and hundreds of thousands of people were starving to death. It was the year summer never came. Scientists, working from bores of glacial ice in Antar...