Santorini used to be more rounded in shape, but back in 1600 BC there was a massive volcanic eruption which destroyed much of the land mass. Known as the Minoan eruption, it was one of the biggest ...
Sixteen or so centuries earlier, possibly in 1560 BC, the Minoan Eruption, one of the most powerful seismological events in human history, disembowelled the Greek island of Thera. It ripped it ...
aligning with the latest theories that reject the notion that the Minoan civilization was destroyed by the eruption of the Santorini volcano. Nevertheless, signs of the urgent situation that ...
It sits just two hours by ferry across the Aegean Sea from the ominous round-the-clock tremors on the island of Santorini, ...
Greece, one of the world’s oldest civilizations, traces its history back to at least 7000 BCE, when Neolithic settlements ...
Sarah Souli This fascinating archaeological site was first discovered in the late 1860s but its buildings date back to earlier than 17th century B.C. This former Minoan outpost, which, according ...
Nearly two thousand years after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, destroying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, scientists ...
The recent Georgia Southern Planetarium viewing of Lamps of Atlantis took local residents on a journey through the stars.