Mount Hekla in Iceland, known as 'the chimney of hell' by medieval Christians, has been considered a gateway to the ...
Medieval Christians claimed that the snow-capped mountain, which stands nearly 4,900 feet, is one of the gates to the nether ...
In his account written 2,000 years ago, Strabo says: '[The] space is filled with a cloudy ... German scholar Caspar Peucer wrote that the gates to hell could be found in 'the bottomless abyss ...
Another link between Hekla and hell came when the 16th-century German scholar Caspar Peucer claimed the gates to hell were ...
Researchers from Brown University conducted 4,000 computer simulations to examine how ice sheet loss influences Antarctica's buried volcanoes.