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 ...

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

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 ...

As residents flee the Greek Island of Santorini after a spate of tremors earlier this month, we look back at a catastrophic ...