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

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?

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

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

Professor of Geology and Natural Disaster Management, Efthymios Lekkas, spoke about the ongoing seismic activity ...

The international research team is in Santorini participating in the oceanographic mission MSM132, which aims to explore the ...

This tiny museum in the heart of Thera houses frescoes and other ... which was destroyed by the volcanic eruption that resulted in Santorini’s current geography. Some of the pieces here date ...

The city was later destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption, the same one that created Santorini’s contemporary ... be sure to visit the Museum of Prehistoric Thera in Fira.

Many have suggested that a major volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean Sea spewed enough material into the atmosphere causing a number of days of darkness (perhaps Santorini, then called Thera).