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To: SunkenCiv

That is really a long time ago. Several centuries before the Trojan War but I guess the Egyptians were making history a long time before that.

Have they ever really determined how close Santorini was to the Minoans?


5 posted on 03/22/2014 4:59:52 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: yarddog

The eruption that formed the caldera dates to 22,000 years ago (that’s not 2,200, but ten times that); there was no tsunami, no “super-eruption” in the 2nd M BC, IMHO it’s a persistent delusional system, and actually originated in the 19th century, but has been periodically revived since then. There’s literally no connection to the super-eruption, which is imaginary; historically the only known eruption from literate antiquity is circa 200 BC.

Even this more conventional date of 1500 or so BC would, if true, have zero connection to the fall of the Minoans, which was nearly a century later, and sudden, and all signs point to a sacking, burning invader. Not by coincidence, the Mycenaean Greeks took over the former Minoan areas and trade routes.

Forcing this supposed eruption to 1620s BC means that the sudden end to the Minoans happened something like two centuries later, which actually helps illustrate the nonsensical claim that there’s any connection whatsoever.


6 posted on 03/22/2014 5:12:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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