It sits just two hours by ferry across the Aegean Sea from the ominous round-the-clock tremors on the island of Santorini, ...

Santorini used to be more rounded in shape, but back in 1600 BC there was a massive volcanic eruption which destroyed much of the land mass. Known as the Minoan eruption, it was one of the biggest ...

Thanks to the Akrotiri Archeological Site, we know for a fact that the Minoan settlement ... famous cliffside was formed by Santorini’s largest volcanic eruption in 1600 BC?

Santorini is, without a doubt ... and led to the creation of its distinctive caldera. This eruption is believed to have wiped out the Minoan civilization on the island, leaving behind the ruins ...

Sixteen or so centuries earlier, possibly in 1560 BC, the Minoan Eruption ... and a steep-cliffed Aegean fragment now known as Santorini. The eruption also took what had been a fishing port ...

The city was later destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption, the same one that created Santorini’s contemporary geography. In fact, it’s sometimes referred to as Santorini’s Pompeii.

aligning with the latest theories that reject the notion that the Minoan civilization was destroyed by the eruption of the Santorini volcano. Nevertheless, signs of the urgent situation that ...

Nearly two thousand years after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, destroying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, scientists have uncovered a hauntingly rare phenomenon—a man’s brain turned into ...