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5 Must-See Places in Greece Reachable by Ferry

2022-08-09 by Aleksandr Shatskih

The Island of Hydra

Five fantastic Greek islands easily reachable via ferry. What better way to explore Greece’s marvelous islands?

Tags: :et's Ferry, Aegean ferries, Chora, Ferry tickets, Greece, Greece by ferry, Greece ferries, Greece Isles, Greek tours, Hydra, island hopping, Mykonos, Mykonos Town, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Thera

The Keftiu Legend: When Peace Swayed All Creatures

2021-05-14 by Phil Butler

Keftiu gifts

Knowledge of the Keftiu, the place, and the people said to have been the “nail that held up the world,” may reveal the path humanity missed.

Tags: Amphitrite, animism, Apollo, Artemis, Atlantis, Britomartis, crete, Egyptian gods, Egyptian religion, Eileithyia, El Elyon, Greatest Kouros, Hathor, Hyksos sphinxes, Knossos, Minoan gods, Minoans, Palaekastro, Palaikastro Kouros, Potnia Theron, prehistory, Rhea, Tell el-Yahudiyeh, Thera, Zeus

365 Anno Domini – The Faint Echoes of a Dead Atlantis

2021-03-10 by Phil Butler

Atlantis

An earthquake in 365 A.D. destroyed every city in Crete. It was the telltale echo of a much more devastating event nearly 2,000 years before.

Tags: 365 A.D., Akrotiri, An earthquake in 365 A.D. destroyed every city in Crete. It was the telltale echo of a much more devastating event nearly 2, ancient earthquakes, archaeological discovery, archaeology, Atlantis, crete, earthquakes, geology, Knossos, Kommos, Minoan Civilization, Minoan navy, Minoans, Mt. Juktas, Phaistos, Santorini, Temple of Anemospilia, The Minoans, Thera, Thera eruption, Thera tsunami

Was the End of the Minoans the Will of the Gods?

2020-09-10 by Phil Butler

Poseidon

Were the Minoans the people Plato referred to as Atlanteans? What really happened to this bright Bronze Age civilization?

Tags: 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, antiquity, Athanasia Kanta, Athena, Atlantis, Bronze Age, Bronze Age Crete, Crete tsunami, Dia Island, Evi Nomikou, Greek legends, J.D.S. Pendlebury, Jacques Cousteau, Jan Driessen, Kostis Christakis, legends, Minoan Civilization, Minoans, Neita, oceanography, Plato, Santorini, Spyridon Marinatos, Sterling Dow, Thera, Thera eruption, Thera explosion, Thera tsunami, Volcanoes

New Akrotiri Finds Hint at Pre-eruption Thera Tsunami Event

2020-02-18 by Argophilia Travel News

House of Benches

New findings on Santorini may shed light on the Thera tsunami many experts believe signalled the beginning of the end of Minoan Civilization.

Tags: Aegean tsunami, Akrotiri, Akrotiri excavations, Minoan Civilization, Minoan destruction, Santorini, Santorini volcano, Thera, Thera eruption, Thera excavations, Thera tsunami, Thera volcano

An Empyrean Whisper: The Fate of the Mysterious Minoans

2020-01-24 by Phil Butler

Heraklion Archaeological Museum

Beyond the science, the religion and the spirit of the Minoans speak of an unimaginable Utopia lost, and the fate of the Minoans.

Tags: archaeology, crete, flood, Karnak, Minoan Civilization, Minoan Empire, Minoan fleet, Minoans, Tempest Stele, The Minoans, Thera, Thera eruption, Thera tsunami

Cities on Volcanoes 11 Conference Comes to Heraklion May 2020

2019-12-08 by Phil Butler

Cities on Volcanoes 11

Coming up May 23rd through 27th of 2020, the Cities on Volcanoes 11 brings the world’s top volcanologists to Greece for the first time. The conferences and workshops of “Volcanoes and Society: environment, health, and hazards” will welcome many of the world’s foremost experts to Heraklion, Crete. Organized by the International Association of Volcanology Cities, […]

Tags: Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Bronze Age Cities and the Volcano of Thera", Cities on Volcanoes, Cities on Volcanoes 11, Crete Natural History Museum, Crete University, Dr. Jan Driessen, IAVCEI, International Association of Volcanology Cities, Minoan Crete, Santorini, Thera, Thera eruption, Volcanoes

Prayer of Yidini: Echoes of Karfi

2018-02-11 by Phil Butler

A story from ancient Karfi, a story of how the last Minoans may have lived and believed. Karfi was the last stronghold of a magnificent culture destroyed by the gods.

Tags: crete, Karfi, Karphi, Keftiu, Lassithi, Lassithi Plateau, Mallia, Minoan Civilization, Minoan Crete, Minoan ruins, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Phaistos, Thera, Thera eruption, Tylissos, Yidini

Vacation Under Apano Meria’s Mesmeric Skies

2017-01-24 by Phil Butler

Santo Maris on Santorini

“It’s spectacular,” someone exclaims somewhere in the distance, and I am lost for words. Spectacular doesn’t even begin to describe what I see. The magic of Apano Meria rendered me silent, and all I can do is stare at that unbelievable sky as it touches the Aegean at the horizon with fiery reds and purples […]

Tags: Apano Meria, Greece, Luxury Hotels, Santo Maris, Santorini, Thera

Santorini Volcanic Activity Confusing

2012-09-12 by Phil Butler

The Thera eruption

Reports on a magma pool building beneath the Greek Island of Santorini have brought on mixed, even confusing opinions about what is going on at the popular tourist destination. Unquestionably, the magma buildup reported by scientist earlier in the year is valid, but are local authorities leveling with potential tourists?

Tags: eruption, Greece, Greek Islands, Island travel, Minoans, Santorini, Santorini tourism, seismic activity, Thera

Akrotiri, Window Into the Bronze Age, Reopens

2012-04-12 by Phil Butler

Prehistoric Site of Akrotiri, Santorini

Seven years after the roof of Santorini’s Akrotiri archaeological site fell, killing a British tourist, the Bronze Age wonder has reopened to the public. This prehistoric town, called by many the “Pompeii of the Aegean”, was for centuries buried beneath tons of volcanic ash. On Wednesday, visitors were once again allowed in to see one of the world’s lost wonders.

Tags: Akrotiri, ancient civilizations, Ancient Greece, Atlantis, Bronze Age, Greece, Greece travel, Greek Islands, Minoans, Pompeii, prehistory, Robert Ballard, Santorini, Santorini tourism, Thera, Thera eruption

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