Around 74,000 years ago, a massive supervolcano called Toba erupted in Indonesia, creating the largest known natural disaster in the last 2.5 million years. Now, an archaeological site in northwest ...

The team's research focused on the Toba super-eruption, which occurred roughly 75,000 years ago in what is now Indonesia. By ...

Ancient tools discovered in northern India provide new evidence that humans were able to survive one of the largest volcanic events in human history — the Toba supervolcano eruption. The Toba ...

Early humans may have flourished after the largest volcanic eruption in history, according to new research. Mount Toba erupted in Indonesia about 74,000 years ago. The event was long thought to ...

When Toba erupted 74,000 years ago, winds blew ash all the way to India. So if all the supervolcanoes go off at once, volcanic debris would spread across the globe. When the eruption ends ...

Getty Images The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora killed more than 70,000 people Lake Toba, at the other end ... It was formed by a truly massive super-volcanic eruption 75,000 years ago, the ...