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

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

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

The last major eruption of Thera took place in 1925 ... on top of the cindery gray lava which represented the late Bronze Age surface of the island, laid down by earlier eruptions.

Despite Minos’s mythological status, the historian Thucydides—working at the height of Athens’s golden age in the fifth ... The colossal eruption on Thera (Santorini) in a 19th-century ...

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 ...