Around 3,600 years ago, one of the strongest volcanic eruptions in the history of humanity occurred. Dating attempts range from approximately 1650 to 1550 BCE. Researchers are not entirely ...

Characteristics of Crete’s letters appear to have used several ... is one of the best preserved of these Minoan settlements. A volcanic eruption around the 16th century B.C. buried Akrotiri ...

A beach in Crete hs been named the world's best but it is close to Santorini, the island rocked by ongoing tremors. Cindy Riechau/dpa Trump administration plans new travel ban. Here's who could be ...

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

The current eruption has been marked by episodic fountaining, a pattern not observed at Halemaumau since 2020. Each eruptive episode has been accompanied by summit deflation, while pauses between ...

This eruption brought down the mighty Minoan civilization by covering the isle of Crete with ash and wiping out humans, animals, and crops.

Professor Spyridon Mannatos published a now classic article in the British periodical Antiquity, entitled "The Volcanic Destruction of Minoan Crete." His thesis was that the eruption of Thera in ...