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

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

The Minoan eruption, they suggested ... scholar Rhys Carpenter made a plea for recognizing the links between Thera and Atlantis, which had been rejected by his colleagues as "too sensational." ...

The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really support this?

Perhaps the inspiration for Atlantis, Minoan civilization born ... the money exchanged when trading goods. The colossal eruption on Thera (Santorini) in a 19th-century engraving, which occurred ...

The legendary drowned island of Atlantis 2 ... by a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in around 1500BCE. Seems like a sensible theory, right? Sadly, the idea that Thera is Atlantis – or even ...

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 ... Some scholars speculate that the legend might have been inspired by the eruption of Thera around 1500 BCE, which, combined with ...

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 ...