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

In 1885 the first connections between Thera and Plato's legend of the Lost Atlantis, that virtuous island which had sunk under the sea in a single night, were made by Auguste Nicaise in a lecture ...

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

8. The city was destroyed by a huge volcano The idea that the island of Santorini (or Thera) is the real Atlantis gained popularity in the 1960s. Excavations revealed that a society similar to the ...

linked to the catastrophic eruption of the Thera volcano around 1600 BCE. Alternatively, some scholars argue that Atlantis was purely allegorical, a tale to illustrate the dangers of hubris and ...

The story of Atlantis, first recorded by the philosopher ... that the legend might have been inspired by the eruption of Thera around 1500 BCE, which, combined with earthquakes that devastated ...