The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, ...

In 1950 the Santorini volcano experienced its last eruption, closing a cycle of volcanic activity that had begun in 1939.

The city of Akrotiri on the island of Thera (modern-day Santorini) is one of the best preserved of these Minoan settlements. A volcanic eruption around the 16th century B.C. buried Akrotiri under ...

Professor Spyridon Mannatos published a now classic article in the British periodical Antiquity, entitled "The Volcanic Destruction of Minoan Crete." His thesis was that the eruption of Thera in ...

A skeleton of a man who was a victim of the Santorini volcano -- and his dog -- were found this week by archaeologists in ...

It's now one of the highlights of the British Museum's Minoan collection. The bull and the leaper are both made of bronze, and together they're about six inches (or 150mm) long and four or five ...

A series of smaller earthquakes there in recent days has already sent residents fleeing in droves ... site of a catastrophic volcanic eruption around 1600 B.C. that reshaped the island and destroyed ...

Many locals fear a possible volcanic eruption. The last one was in 1950. The historic Minoan eruption in 1600 B.C., one of history’s largest, gave the island its current shape. “Us locals ...

In 1950 the Santorini volcano experienced its last eruption, closing a cycle ... from the Santorini volcano covered the Minoan city at Akrotiri of Thera, helping to preserve its structures and ...