Quoted from Express, Wednesday (10/29/2021), this discovery may be the first example of physical remains found among one of the tens of thousands of people who most likely died.
The international research team published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In it, they present evidence of a catastrophic tsunami caused by the eruption of Mount Thera, in modern-day Santorini on a volcanic island in the Aegean Sea, some 3,600 years ago.
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The eruption of the Santorini volcano is still considered one of the the most powerful eruption in human history. The eruption was rated as a “super-colossal” explosion that only occurs once in thousands of years.
Volcanoes of this size produce volcanic ash as high as 25 kilometers and spread over hundreds of kilometers. The impact of the eruption was equivalent to the millions of atomic bombs dropped on the city of Hiroshima.
Experts believe that the traumatic memories caused by this eruption may have created many myths and legends of humanity.
Researchers believe that the Bronze Age, which occurred in 1600 BC, can be seen in Plato’s allegory of the sunken city of Atlantis, which was formed more than a thousand years later.
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