Winds spread ash and aerosols from the Thera eruption, causing atmospheric changes that contributed to the Minoan ...

The volcanic ash from the Santorini volcano covered the Minoan city at Akrotiri of Thera, helping to preserve its structures and artifacts. The excavation work to recover the ruins of Akrotiri was ...

this explosion and the resulting debris and tsunamis arguably marked the beginning of the end of seafaring Minoan civilization. To learn more about Santorini's volcanic potential, scientists ...

Santorini is also the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in human history. Known as the Minoan eruption, it occurred around 1600 B.C. and destroyed much of the formerly round island.

Ruins of a settlement, including a former Catholic monastery, lie on the rocky promontory of Skaros on the Greek island of Santorini ... the decline of the ancient Minoan civilization, which ...

In summer, Santorini’s famous sunset spot near the ruins of its Venetian castle would ... Prehistoric Thera where finds from Akrotiri, the Minoan site known as “the Greek Pompeii”, are ...