An insider guide to enjoying this iconic Greek island, its dazzling sunsets, clifftop villages and all-encompassing volcano ...

This tiny museum in the heart of Thera houses frescoes and other archaeological treasures found during the excavation of Ancient Akrotiri, which was destroyed by the volcanic eruption that ...

Winds spread ash and aerosols from the Thera eruption, causing atmospheric changes that contributed to the Minoan civilization’s collapse. Credit: Gary Bembridge/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 A recent ...

Is Akrotiri Older Than Pompeii? Yes! While Pompeii was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Akrotiri was buried around 1600 BC—over 1,500 years earlier—when the Thera volcano erupted.

In 1939, Greek Archaeologist Spyridon Marinates suggested that the Minoan civilization had actually been destroyed around 1500 B.C. by falling ash and poisonous fumes from a volcanic eruption on ...

The eruption of the Thera volcano more than 3,000 years ago is the one of the largest ever witnessed by humans. When it erupted on the island of Santorini in Greece, it buried the ancient Minoan ...

Two volcanic ash layers have been correlated in deep sea piston cores from the eastern Mediterranean1,2. The lower ash layer (n = 1.521) occurs between late Würm carbonate sediment and originated ...

The reason we can say this is that archaeologists have found various items made of pumice (rock formed from volcanic material) in Egypt from one specific time period. This is the reign of Ahmose I.

1. Mount Tambora, Indonesia (1815) The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 stands as the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. Located on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia, Tambora's explosion ...

The second largest volcanic eruption in human history was much larger than previously thought, scientists say. The Bronze Age eruption of Thera near mainland Greece would have devastated ancient ...