Posted on 12/03/2008 4:12:12 AM PST by Mike Fieschko
I guess we know what happened to Atlantis now.
Or, it just means there was a large eruption prior to the catastrophic eruption that affected Egypt.
Duh.
1700 BC Minoan Linear A script.
1700 BC Palace of Knossos on Crete.
1680 BC Hurrians occupy Assyria.
1600 BC Founding of the kingdom of Kush, Nubia.
1600 BC Shaft burials in Mycenae.
1600 BC Canaanite alphabet.
1595 BC King Mursilis of the Hittites sacks Babylon. Begin of Babylonian dark ages.
1550 BC Kingdom of Mittani is founded.
1523-1070 BC The New Kingdom of Egypt.
Santorini Ping.
Thanks! It’s been posted before, but that was a few years ago.
Well if the scientific results are confirmed, it means that the Egyptologists have mislaid a century in there somewhere, right?
"Even when, during the respective Thera Conferences, individual scientists had pointed out that the magnitude and significance of the Thera eruption must be estimated as less than previously thought, the conferences acted to strengthen the original hypothesis. The individual experts believed that the arguments advanced by their colleagues were sound, and that the facts of a natural catastrophe were not in doubt... All three factors reflect a fantasy world rather than cool detachment, which is why it so difficult to refute the theory with rational arguments." -- Eberhard Zangger, "The Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century", pp 49-50.
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University Rhode Island ^ | 8-23-2006 | Todd McLeish
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Santorini eruption much larger than originally believed; likely had significant impact on civilization
KINGSTON, R.I. August 23, 2006 An international team of scientists has found that the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the massive Bronze Age eruption of Thera in Greece, was much larger and more widespread than previously believed.
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Would you mind citing your source for the caldera being over 100,000 years old? I’ve never read this before and I’m not doubting, just very curious. I would like more information.
Herodotus lived in the 5th century BC and the volcano in the middle of the caldera and lagoon, Nea Kamena, rose above the surface of the water in 196 BC, I believe.
I’ve visited Santorini several times now and it’s as stunningly scenic as its history is fascinating.
The Greek archeologist Spyridon Marinatos originally proposed Santorini as the probably source of the Atlantis legends. The most compelling explanation of the source of the Atlantis legend can be read in Graham Hancock’s “Underworld”. It was not Santorini (or the town of Hellike, as others have theorized).
David Rohl now believes that it was the eruption of 1160 B.C., not an earlier one, that wasted Crete and left pumice as far away as the Nile delta. The critical point is that according to discoveries made by Manfred Bietak at Tell ed-Daba (Avaris), Thutmose III must have been the ruling pharaoh, whenever it happened.
:’) There was a big eruption tracing to Thera 22,000 years ago, and (although no one can probably figure it out for sure) the big gap on the west side of caldera may date from that. In the book linked above (the Zangger title) that 22K year ago eruption generated pumice (I think it was, I don’t have the book here) found in Crimea (ditto). But anyway, it’s an old volcano. Some pumice which had been worked into some kind of artifact was excavated in Egypt (I think at Tell ed-Daba; a google search of FR for “Sturt Manning” will locate a post about this) had been assumed to be from Thera, but turned out to be from the Kos volcano, iow, 102K year old eruption. :’)
:’) Schorr, writing as Isaacson to avoid problems during his postgrad studies, noted that the old conventional 1500 BC date was referenced by Velikovsky, but due to the artifacts found under the eruption layer, the supposed supereruption would have to be dated centuries later. [”Some Preliminary Remarks about Thera and Atlantis” Israel M. Isaacson; followed by editors’ “A Reply to Isaacson”, KRONOS, Vol. I, No. 2, summer 1975]
The Greek archeologist Spyridon Marinatos originally proposed Santorini as the probably source of the Atlantis legends. The most compelling explanation of the source of the Atlantis legend can be read in Graham Hancock's "Underworld". It was not Santorini (or the town of Helike, as others have theorized).I agree, not Santorini, not Helike; also not Crete, not Anatolia (both Zangger and Peter James put Atlantis there), or that little island that succumbed to a tsunami during the Peloponnesian War. :')
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