Dante's Inferno Reimagined as an Ancient Meteor Strike

A geologist and geomythologist argues that Dante's Inferno depicts the effects of a colossal meteorite impact, with Lucifer's fall creating crater-like rings and even suggesting a shift of landmasses—an intuition centuries before science. The theorist, Timothy Burberry of Marshall University, presented the idea at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, noting how Dante's imagery aligns with modern understandings of planetary collisions.