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Old volcanoes are turning into meteor craters. I wonder whether Italian geologists could be wrong in regarding Lago di Bolsena as a typical extinct volcano crater. The Roman encyclopedist Pliny said that it was the spot where a Jovian thunderbolt had destroyed the Etruscan city of Volsinium...
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc031500.html
ca. 520 BCE Destruction of Etruscan town of Volsinii
VERY cool!