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The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE. [2] [3] It destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri, as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and the coast of Crete with subsequent earthquakes and paleotsunamis. [4]
Akrotiri was buried by the massive Theran eruption in the middle of the second millennium BCE [5] (during the Late Minoan IA period); as a result, like the Roman ruins of Pompeii after it, it is remarkably well-preserved. Frescoes, [6] pottery, furniture, advanced drainage systems and three-story buildings have been discovered at the site. [7]
Satellite image of the Island of Thera, also called Santorini. Clockwise from center: Nea Kameni; Palea Kameni; Aspronisi; Therasia; Thera The story of Atlantis has been argued to preserve a cultural memory of the Thera eruption, which destroyed the town of Akrotiri and affected some Minoan settlements on Crete. [3]
During the Bronze Age, Santorini was the site of the Minoan eruption, one of the largest volcanic eruptions in human history. This violent eruption was centred on a small island just north of the existing island of Nea Kameni in the centre of the caldera; the caldera itself was formed several hundred thousand years ago by the collapse of the ...
The Minoan civilization was not destroyed by the eruption of Thera and was not the inspiration for Plato's parable of Atlantis. [8] The ancient Romans did not use the Roman salute depicted in The Oath of the Horatii (1784).
Central to its thesis is the volcanic eruption of Thera/Santorini. A suggested date of 1500 BC is made for the Exodus, during the reign of pharaoh Ahmose I . The "palpable darkness" described as the 9th plague, is hypothetically attributed to the cloud of volcanic ash caused by the Minoan eruption , which is identified as the events described ...
William Scott-Elliot (sometimes incorrectly spelled Scott-Elliott) (1849–1919) was a Scottish nobleman, merchant banker, theosophist and amateur historian who elaborated Helena Blavatsky's concept of root races in several publications, most notably The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904), later combined in 1925 into a single volume called The Story of Atlantis and the Lost ...
The eruption article is the main article for the eruption. The Santorini article contains a short section that summarizes the eruption article. So there shouldn't be a merger; having things partially duplicated like this is common. Info about the biblical stories should be more appropriate for the eruption article.