The Supervolcanoes that could kill us all 0:55SUN-CHOKING debris cast off by volcanoes more than 2000 years ago starved headwaters feeding the Nile river and hastened the downfall of ancient Egypt’s last kingdom, researchers claim. “Volcanic eruptions may have had a central role in the eventual collapse of the Ptolemaic dynasty,” the journal noted in a summary. The Ptolemaic empire began in 305BC shortly after the death of Alexander the Great and ended in 30BC with the suicide of Cleopatra. Both periods of turmoil, the researchers found, coincided with major volcanic eruptions. “The volcanic eruptions didn’t cause these (social) upheavals on their own,” Ludlow said.

Source: Ethiopian News October 18, 2017 05:37 UTC