Ancient CivilizationsStudy Argues Dante’s Inferno Mapped a Planetary Impact 500 Years Before Science Posted on June 15, 2026 by Administrator A new study presented at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna in April 2026 has put forward a striking argument: that the geometry of Hell as described in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno closely mirrors the physical structure produced by a large planetary impact event.