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==[[Santorini Archaeological Sites : Akrotiri Excavations]]== | ==[[Santorini Archaeological Sites : Akrotiri Excavations]]== | ||
The excavations at Akrotiri have uncovered one of the most important prehistoric settlements of the Aegean. The first habitation at the site dates from the Late Neolithic times (at least the 4th millennium BC)...[[Santorini Archaeological Sites : Akrotiri Excavations|>>>read on<<<<]] | The excavations at Akrotiri have uncovered one of the most important prehistoric settlements of the Aegean. The first habitation at the site dates from the Late Neolithic times (at least the 4th millennium BC)...[[Santorini Archaeological Sites : Akrotiri Excavations|>>>read on<<<<]] | ||
==Akrotiri - Minoan City on the Island of Santorini== | |||
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''Akrotiri (Crete)<br> | |||
Akrotiri is the name of a small Minoan settlement located on the volcanic island of Thera (or Santorini) in the Aegean Sea. Occupied first in the late Neolithic period during the fourth millennium BC, Akrotiri grew to an important trade center during the middle and late Bronze Age, with an elaborate drainage system and a palace.In the late 17th century BC, a series of earthquakes forced the abandonment of the town, and a good thing too: Thera erupted shortly afterward, covering the city in ash and splitting the island in two. | |||
Akrotiri has been suggested as a possible origin of Plato's Atlantis legend; archaeologists are more interested in the effects the eruption had on the Minoan culture. Most recently, controversy has stirred over the precise date of the eruptions at Akrotiri, with both ice core and volcanic dates indicating that the volcano erupted about 1625 BC, or about 100 years earlier than traditional dates. | |||
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