A MOMENT IN HISTORY
Minoan eruption
1600 BCE · Greece, Europe · Disaster
The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera circa 1600 BC. It destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri, as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and the coast of Crete with subsequent earthquakes and tsunamis.
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