The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE. [2][3] It destroyed the Minoan settlement at …

2025年1月24日 · Eruption of Thera, devastating Bronze Age eruption of a long-dormant volcano on the Aegean island of Thera, about 70 miles (110 km) north of Crete. Earthquakes, perhaps …

2023年7月24日 · Approximately around 1500 BCE, the placidity of the Mediterranean world was disrupted by a catastrophic event – the eruption of the Thera Volcano. The island, known as …

2008年2月25日 · Historians and archaeologists have had trouble deciding on the year Thera erupted, with dates ranging anywhere from 1645 BC to 1500 BC. Studies of ash deposits on …

2025年2月6日 · One major discovery was that the island of Thera, now commonly known as Santorini, had been the site of a massive Minoan settlement. The eruption of this volcanic …

2018年8月16日 · Evidence in texts from Egypt’s New Kingdom suggests the 16th century B.C. Radiocarbon dating of materials found from Thera (known today as Santorini), though, put the …

2012年7月7日 · Thera is the ancient name for both the island of Santorini in the Greek Cyclades and the name of the volcano which famously erupted on the island in the middle Bronze Age. …

2025年1月31日 · The eruption of Thera somewhere between 1650 and 1600 BCE began a series of severe environmental changes that abased Minoan stability on Crete and throughout the …

2023年7月24日 · Thera’s most infamous eruption took place around 1600 BCE, famously known as the Minoan eruption. The catastrophic impact of this eruption destroyed the Minoan …

The effects of the Thera eruption on the island itself were devastating. Estimates of the amount of volcanic material (tephra) ejected during the eruption range from 3 to 28 cubic kilometers. …