Thera Eruption

sci:history:thera_eruption

Around the sixteenth century BCE the volcano of Thera (Santorini) erupted with shattering force, burying its city and convulsing the eastern Mediterranean as the Minoan world declined. Many have linked the memory of that catastrophe — debated, but real — to Plato's tale of Atlantis, the great island swallowed by the sea. — archaeology / earth science