Roman art showing Helen of Troy discovered in Pompeii 2,000 years after volcanic eruption Anthony Robledo USA TODAY 0:00 ...

For the inhabitants of the surrounding cities and towns, the frequent eruptions mean a regular battle with the layers of black ash that thickly carpet streets, cars, terraces and gardens.

The volcanic activity is one factor thought to contribute to this particularly cold interlude, alongside unusual solar activity and changes in ocean currents.

For example, the volcanic ash clouds from the 2010 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull caused the largest closure of European airspace since World War Two and cost the aviation ...

Munch however was not the first painter to be inspired by the surreal sunsets caused by volcanic eruptions. American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church traveled to Ontario in December 1883 ...

This depiction shows Bronze Age people leaving their footprints in the volcanic ash and then later illustrating the volcano's massive eruption on a rock shelter about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) away.